Monday 24th Settembre 2012 , 19.30
Film Screening with an introduction by the director

Sopracenerina Hall, Locarno
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Free Entrance

A remarkable portrait of the most important violinist of the 20th century.

(Diapason d’Or, 1996 – Grand prix Académie Charles Cros,1996. Prix Gramophone de la Meilleure Vidéo 1996)

“For a long time, I thought I had been born too late. Had I been around some twenty years earlier, I might have seen the one performer of our century to have attained a truly universal dimension, Yehudi Menuhin, performing during his youth. His fame was so phenomenal right from the start of his very precocious career, the emergence of this young genius clearly touched by a divine spark so kindled public imagination the world over, that Menuhin has remained in collective memory the very symbol of the violin.
Doubtless more than any performer in our century, Yehudi Menuhin has contributed to the fashioning of the musical sensitivity of an era by marking every work he touched with his warm unmistakable stamp. Is it not this which, beyond the amazing technique, the resources of an infinitely varied vibrato, the supremely elegant ease of his bowing, the originality of his phrasing and musical thinking, the fierceness of his accents, the heart-rending tenderness of an instantly recognisable sound, the purity and humanity which his sound reveals, the nobility of the man which never appears at fault even to those most closely associated with him, is it not this we have in mind when we speak of Menuhin as of " the greatest violinist of our time?”
Bruno Monsaingeon.

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