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World premiere performance of Jeremy Menuhin's Variations on an Original Theme for Four Hands (2017): Andantino Solenne
Mookie and Jeremy Menuhin, 26. August, 2023
Saanen Church, Gstaad, Switzerland

Jeremy Menuhin:
¨This piece contains a few, largely coincidental, references to the last movement of Brahms' 4th Symphony. It just happened that the first four notes of the theme were reminiscent of, but not identical to, the opening bars. Similarly, the theme lent itself to another citation. that of the Sarabande in Bach's Cello Suite in C minor.

The repeated interludia provide relief from a melancholy atmosphere. They turned out to be baroque in style, despite the overriding 19th century harmonies of the main work.

Towards the end of the last interludium, I combine the two elements, the original theme and the baroque leitmotif¨