Berlin Baroque Soloists

Great love - Mozart's violin concertos - Anne-Sophie Mutter has played them again and again in the course of her incomparable career. The works have accompanied the virtuoso since childhood and, like her audience, she simply can't seem to get enough of them. The Concerto K. 219 is a highlight for Mutter, because "here Mozart experiments with numerous new ideas. It is the boldest, most multi-layered concerto, full of abrupt changes of mood". The artist is always on the lookout to discover yet another unknown nuance. After all, they are constantly maturing, just as playing partners, instruments and the aesthetics of their approach change: "Back to the roots and rethinking cherished playing habits. That has developed a lot over the last 30 to 40 years," the soloist said in an interview. So even those works that have become second nature, so to speak, remain evergreen.

The openness and understanding with which concert organizers approach contemporary music has also grown over the years. This is not least due to the personalities who bring it to the audience - and Anne-Sophie Mutter is naturally at the forefront of this, as her outstanding art is a constant inspiration for the sound creators of our time. André Previn also dedicated various of his compositions to her, including chamber music, double concertos and two violin concertos. The second concerto, premiered in Trondheim in 2012, combines transparent neoclassical passages with lavish lyricism and integrates distinctive harpsichord interludes into the structure of the movement. The evening opens with the violin solo "Likoo" by Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi, which was only premiered in New York's Carnegie Hall in 2025. She found her way to music as a child through the violin and is asked by international institutions and artists such as the Kronos Quartet to perform her atmospherically dense works.

Program:
Darvishi, "Likoo" for violin solo
Previn, Violin Concerto No. 2 for violin and string orchestra with two harpsichord interludes
Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major K. 207
Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K. 219

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin and conductor
Berliner Barocksolisten

With the kind support of the Freunde und Förderer der Albert Konzerte e.V.

EUR 179,- / 159,- / 135,- / 93,- / 75,- incl. fees

Anne-Sophie Mutter | Photo © Julia Wesley