Once again this year she appears with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, presenting contemporary works composed for and dedicated to her – by Dutilleux (Nocturne Sur le même accord, including its North American premiere), Lutosławski (Partita, Interludium, Chain 2), Rihm (Gesungene Zeit) and Previn (Violin Concerto Anne-Sophie) – as well as great traditional compositions including violin concertos by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms and chamber music by Beethoven and Brahms.
The artist’s year begins with a tour of Germany with the Munich Philharmonic under the direction of Sir André Previn, in which she plays the Korngold Concerto, followed by a European tour with Previn and Lynn Harrell. In March she joins the Oslo Philharmonic for concerts throughout Europe. On the programme: the Previn Concerto, conducted by the composer. The new CD release entitled Tango Song and Dance furnishes the programme of a European recital tour with pianist Lambert Orkis.
Performances and a new recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Previn and the Wiener Philharmoniker (released 2004, Echo Award, 2005 “Instrumentalist of the year”). With the same conductor and the Berliner Philharmoniker, the artist performs the Beethoven Concerto in Berlin. After that in London, Korngold’s Concerto is on the programme (and recorded for release in 2004 with the Tchaikovsky Concerto), with Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
CD Compact, Barcelona 2003, Echo Award 2003 for Beethoven: Violin concerto / Romances
The year begins with Deutsche Grammophon sessions, including works by Gershwin, Brahms, Fauré, Kreisler and the first recording of Tango Song and Dance, composed for her by Sir André Previn.
Tours Germany and Switzerland with Orkis and Lynn Harrell, performing piano trios by Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Gives the premiere performances of and records another work written for her by Previn, his Violin Concerto, with the composer conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra (released 2003, Grammy 2005).
Plays in the rapturously acclaimed Royal Festival Hall the world premiere of Henri Dutilleux’s Nocturne for violin and orchestra Sur le même accord, dedicated to Mutter, with Kurt Masur conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra (DG releases the world-premiere recording in 2005, Echo Award, 2005 “World-premiere recording of the year”).
Performs the Beethoven Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall with Masur and the New York Philharmonic (DG live recording released in November: CD Compact, Barcelona, Echo Award, 2003). Plays and conducts the Mozart concerto cycle with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival.
Performances on two evenings of Mozart’s complete Violin Concertos, as artist-in-residence at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and, playing and conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker, in Vienna, Baden-Baden, Ingolstadt and Wiesbaden.
Undertakes a major project entitled Back to the Future: a retrospective of 20th-century’s major violin repertoire with concerts in the US and Europe and the release of a CD.
Recording of “Recital 2000”, works by Prokofiev, Crumb, Webern and Respighi with which she tours this year with Orkis (CD Compact, Barcelona 2000). Penderecki’s Violin Sonata, commissioned by the artist, is given its first performance in London in April.
Grammy 2000 for Beethoven: The 10 Violin sonatas, CD Compact, Barcelona 2000 for Recital 2000
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