Beethoven Week kicked off in the “Spring Sonata” played by Mutter

NCPA December/05/2019

On December 4^th, Anne-Sophie Mutter, NCPA Artist-in-Residence of the 2019-2020 season, appeared in the Concert Hall and played Beethoven’s three violin sonatas with the pianist Lambert Orkis, kicking off the NCPA Beethoven Week and putting an end to the “NCPA Pure Classical” 2019.

Anne-Sophie Mutter kicked off NCPA Beethoven Week.

Mutter’s first cooperation with Lambert Orkis dates to back more than 20 years ago. Last century, they released an album of Beethoven’s violin sonatas, which was regarded as canons by music lovers. Moreover, they jointly revised the music scores of the works.

Mutter’s first cooperation with Lambert Orkis dates to back more than 20 years ago.

As the first presto theme of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 4 kicked in, Mutter and Orkis took the audience back to the Classical Era in their musical dialogue. Then, the sounds of Violin Sonata No. 5 “Spring”, one of Beethoven’s works most familiar to people, flowed out of Mutter’s bowstring. The last piece performed at the concert was Violin Sonata No. 9 “Kreutzer”, which contains Beethoven’s signature profundity and philosophy. This sonata has extremely high requirements on a player’s music sense and understanding of harmony, but for Mutter and Orkis, who have explored the music piece for decades, it is very easy to render.

The above three wonderful violin sonatas by Beethoven were just appetizers on the feast of music. Three concerts of Beethoven’s different genres of music will be held during the Beethoven Week.

Anne-Sophie Mutter

On December 5^th, Mutter will play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major with China NCPA Orchestra led by the conductor Manfred Honeck; on December 7^th, she will play Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C Major with Orkis and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott. Moreover, Beethoven’s two rarely heard romanzas will be performed at the two concerts, and Horneck will raise his baton over China NCPA Orchestra to play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7; on December 8^th, Mutter will create a “night of string ensembles” by playing Beethoven’s two string trios and String Quartet in E flat Major with LU Wei, Daniel Müller-Schott and Vladimir Babeshko.

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