Anne-Sophie Mutter's web site offers extensive information on The Mozart Project, her latest musical obsession. Info includes an interview she gave to Viennese critic Walter Dobner on the subject of Mozart's violin sonatas. Here's an excerpt:
"What criteria did you use in deciding which sonatas to programme as part of your three concerts?
I chose the most important works from all three creative periods - the Mannheim period and the middle and later periods in Vienna. And I tried to order them in such a way that they make musical sense but are also manageable from a technical point of view. One would never start a programme with K. 378, for example: that would be utter suicide. And it also goes without saying that the works that one chooses to open a programme should begin with a fanfare or a similar theme and be very straightforward and extrovert. More introverted works tend to be found in the middle of a programme. It is a question of ensuring that each recital represents a self-contained survey and that a constant development is discernible, culminating in the compositional high point of the programme's final sonata."
Complete text of Walter Dobner's interview with Anne-Sophie Mutter, not to mention Ms. Mutter's ten favorite Mozart recordings can be found on her web site.
Anne-Sophie Mutter will play a program of Mozart sonatas with pianist Lambert Orkis on Tuesday evening, November 14 at Symphony Hall.
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