Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Brahms
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) & Lambert Orkis (piano)
The intensity is electrifying, while every nuance of every phrase sounds as though it has been exhaustively planned.
Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Brahms
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) & Lambert Orkis (piano)
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The intensity is electrifying, while every nuance of every phrase sounds as though it has been exhaustively planned.
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On this recording, Anne-Sophie Mutter, accompanied by pianist Lambert Orkis, shares her up-to-date thoughts on the Brahms Violin Sonatas that have been central to her repertoire from the start of her career.
These sonatas are among the most intense, emotionally penetrating works composed for the violin.
Second only to her solo repertoire, chamber music has been for Anne-Sophie Mutter an on-going passion and commitment. Her communion with Orkis’s pianism defines musical collaboration at its zenith.
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- Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano)
- Recorded: 2009-12-02
- Recording Venue: Bibliothekssaal, Polling
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano)
- Recorded: 2009-12-02
- Recording Venue: Bibliothekssaal, Polling
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano)
- Recorded: 2009-12-02
- Recording Venue: Bibliothekssaal, Polling
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Awards and reviews
June 2010
The intensity is electrifying, while every nuance of every phrase sounds as though it has been exhaustively planned.
August 2010
...you know from the winsome spread chord in bar 4 [of the Second Sonata], and Mutter's coy reply, that these will be decidedly individual performances. To a certain extent Orkis plays straight man to Mutter's diva, but they always know exactly where the other is, and the excellent engineering gives them equal billing.
19th March 2010
Never before have Mutter and Orkis seemed so joined at the hip, giving and taking, conducting dialogue, chasing each others’ thoughts...She plays with a new degree of maturity and depth, especially visible in the slow movements...Magical music-making, this.
New York Times 26th November 2010
For most violinists in these works, Romantically soaring lyrical lines are an automatic assumption. For the thoughtful Anne-Sophie Mutter here, nothing seems automatic; those qualities have to be worked at intensely and achieved. She does so triumphantly
