Starting November 12, 2017 Mutter & Orkis on tour

30 Oct 2017 – With her recital tour in November 2017, which takes her to four German cities and to Barcelona, Anne-Sophie Mutter commences her programmatic focus of 2018. Honouring the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who celebrates his 85th birthday this coming year and who has been her friend for many years, she has programmed two of his works for this tour: the Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, which she commissioned and premiered in 2000, and the Duo concertante per violino e contrabbasso, commissioned by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. For this work, the outstanding double bass player and former fellow of the Foundation, Roman Patkoló, originally gave the first impulse. The famous Partita in D-Minor by Bach, the Scherzo from Brahms’ romantic F-A-E Sonata and a selection of his Hungarian Dances frame the intriguing programme. The piano part is played by Lambert Orkis, with whom Anne-Sophie Mutter will celebrate 30 years of continuous collaboration in 2018.