Mutter plays Bach

New! Different! Important?

by James Leonard

posted 10/19/2008

Two years ago, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter told Musical America she planned to stop performing “when I reach my forty-fifth birthday,” that is, in June 2008. Shortly afterward, however, she told the Washington Post that she’d been “misinterpreted”—that in fact she intended to keep playing as long as she could “bring anything new, anything important,

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