
This SACD transfer of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Beethoven violin sonatas, taken from a series of live recordings from 1998, does not transcend the questionable interpretations. In
Rehearing these 1982 recordings leaves a mixed impression. Anne-Sophie Mutter (then 19 years old) is too forwardly balanced, diverting attention from the piano, which in
Normally you’d expect a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto’s first movement lasting 27 minutes and nine seconds to be on the slow side. Timings,
What’s not to like? These two concertos were recorded during Mutter and Karajan’s “sweater period”, when all of their album covers, whether for DG or
Deutsche Grammophon’s booklet cover shows Anne-Sophie Mutter in a white dress shirt and loose-fitting tie. After listening to Recital 2000, there’s no doubt that she