![]() Photo © 2019 The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun Over the course of her career, she cultivated a very deep involvement in performing new music written specifically for her by some of her contemporaries, including Krzystof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Wolfgang Rihm, and André Previn. ![]() Mutter is considered among the greatest interpreters of both the great traditional repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky and the Baroque masterworks of Bach and Vivaldi. At the very young age of 15, she was already performing under the baton of legendary conductor Herbert von Karajan, and since then had a luminous career performing with the greatest orchestras and the most distinguished conductors around the globe’s most important venues, but also performing in solo recitals and chamber groups, including her own ensemble named I Virtuosi. The uber-talented violinist certainly needs no introduction. Internationally acclaimed German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins an impressive list of solo musicians who had the privilege of being picked by Maestro Williams to perform music written specifically for them. ![]() This is certainly the case for the collaborations between composer John Williams and several great musicians and performers over the course of his 60+ years career, including some of the most talented and famous names of the classical world: Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, opera singer Jessye Norman, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel, just to name a few. Some artistic partnerships can be easily summarized as a match made in heaven. Photo © Phrashant Gupta / Deutsche Grammophon Exclusive interview with the internationally acclaimed violinist about her collaboration with the composer and their stunning recording project Across The Stars, featuring all-new arrangements of Williams’ iconic film themes rewritten especially for her by Maurizio Caschetto
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