With one exception, the recordings on the double-album Hommage ŕ Penderecki are all reissues (the new one is the quite haunting Violin Sonata No. 2 of 1999 at the end of disc one). Yet the collection will be well worth the time and money even of Mutter fans, for it offers an ideal deep dive into a key aspect of the violinist's career. The beginning of her interaction with Penderecki was close chronologically to the point where she became well established as one of the world's preeminent violinists, perhaps even the very top ...
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With one exception, the recordings on the double-album Hommage ŕ Penderecki are all reissues (the new one is the quite haunting Violin Sonata No. 2 of 1999 at the end of disc one). Yet the collection will be well worth the time and money even of Mutter fans, for it offers an ideal deep dive into a key aspect of the violinist's career. The beginning of her interaction with Penderecki was close chronologically to the point where she became well established as one of the world's preeminent violinists, perhaps even the very top one. Her technically precise but emotionally edgy style not only fit Penderecki unusually well, but also became part of her efforts to shape her legacy in an ongoing way. The collaboration has resulted in four works to date. All are representative of Penderecki's late style, which is less neo-Romantic than aimed at showing that there is still a lot of room to incorporate dissonant structures into Romantic idioms. Sample the Metamorphosen, the Violin Concerto No. 2, on CD two,...
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