Culture: Beethoven Is Left in Mutter's Shadow ; London Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony Hall

Birmingham Post › March 06, 2006

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Anne-Sophie Mutter's interpretation of the supreme masterpiece which is Beethoven's Violin Concerto is not one for the classicists.

Her account on Friday revealed how she sees the piece as the first in the phalanx of large-scale Romantic concertos for the instrument, preoccupied with both beauty of sound and emphasis upon the soloist.

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Culture: Beethoven Is Left in Mutter's Shadow ; London Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony Hall

An approach to freedom of tempo which verged almost on mannerism certainly...

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