Producer: Stiehler, Angelika

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Anne-Sophie Mutter - Encounters with Mendelssohn

Mutter, Anne-Sophie

Harrell, Lynn

Previn, Andre

Conductor: Masur, Kurt

Television Director: Atteln, Gunter

Producer: Stiehler, Angelika

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Narrator: Harrell, Lynn

Narrator: Mutter, Anne-Sophie

Narrator: Previn, Andre

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Year of Production: 2008

Playing Time: 00:18:19

Catalogue Number: A04500548

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One of the world's foremost violinists, Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical celebrity known even by countless people who rarely listen to classical music. The artist and teacher, who promotes young musicians and commissions new works from contemporary composers, made her spectacular breakthrough under Herbert von Karajan at the 1977 Salzburg Easter Festival. She has since concertized at every major venue throughout the world. In 2008 she was awarded not only the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Award, but also the Leipzig Mendelssohn Award. The award ceremony in March 2008 was crowned by a gala concert at Leipzig's Gewandhaus with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur, at which Mutter performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64.

On the occasion of the Mendelssohn Year, Unitel Classica offers the documentary Anne-Sophie Mutter – Encounters with Mendelssohn, in which the artist discusses her affinity to Mendelssohn and explains why she particularly admires the works presented here.