Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis talking about the Brahms Violin Sonatas... mORE [+]

To mark the bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth, Anne-Sophie Mutter has been honouring the composer with a very personal tribute combining symphonic music and chamber works on CD and DVD: The Violin Sonata in F major of 1838, the Piano Trio in D minor op. 49 that was completed in 1839 and the Violin Concerto in E minor of 1845, a work which even today has lost none of its fascination. mehr [+]

In February 2007 the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina – she was born in Chistopol in Tatarstan in 1931 and has lived in Germany since 1992 – was awarded Hamburg’s prestigious Bach Prize: as a “pioneer of contemporary classical music” who has forged a link between Eastern and Western music. Her own music has been inspired by that of Johann Sebastian Bach in more ways than one, with the result that it seemed obvious for Anne-Sophie Mutter to record two of Bach’s concertos alongside her worldpremiere recording of Gubaidulina’s most recent violin concerto, a piece dedicated to Mutter. “There is a profound spiritual affinity between Gubaidulina and Bach,”... mehr [+]

Anne-Sophie Mutter, who celebrated her 30th stage anniversary in 2006, also celebrated Mozart’s 250th anniversary in the same year with a series of new recordings of all his major works for violin. She has been dreaming of carrying out such a project ever since she first fell in love with Mozart at the age of six. mehr [+]

At the beginning of the new millennium, Anne-Sophie Mutter‘s project entitled “Back to the Future“ has drawn up a musical resumé of the 20th century. Which compositons in the violin literature will live on? Which modern works are here to stay?These are the questions that Anne-Sophie Mutter investigated in each of the five special concerts given in London, New York, Frankfurt and Stuttgart respectively during the course of spring 2000. more [+]