Anne-Sophie Mutter

Palace of Arts / Bartók National Concert Hall

Address: IX. district, Komor Marcell utca 1
Phone: 555-3300
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The Pittsburgh Symphony arrives along with one of the world’s biggest violinist stars. This concert really is a sensation: Anne-Sophie Mutter has never before performed in Hungary.

This late Budapest debut is all the more inexplicable because more than three decades have passed since Mutter, as a teenager, first took to the stage at the Lucerne Festival, and one year later made her appearance at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
As one of the most sought-after violinists of our time, she is particularly attracted to the works of modern, contemporary composers (Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sir André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm). That is not to say that she does not move with perfect ease in the world of Baroque, Viennese classical and Romantic works as well, one pinnacle of which she achieves with her interpretation of Brahms’s Violin concerto. Mutter takes to the stage of the Palace of Arts in the company of the orchestra that the Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner conducted and which was further shaped by, among others, André Previn and Lorin Maazel. (Programme: Brahms: Violin concerto in D major, Op. 77; Mahler: “Titan” Symphony No. 1 in D major; conductor: Manfred Honeck)