Certainly, releases of John Williams' music, often conducted by the composer himself, have sold well, but his remarkable late-life creativity has been insufficiently appreciated (and he's at work on a score for Indiana Jones 5 ). The Violin Concerto No. 2 heard here was composed for Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2021, when he was 89, and as if that were not enough, Williams conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra crisply and with good control. He could certainly be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels, but this does not ...
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Certainly, releases of John Williams' music, often conducted by the composer himself, have sold well, but his remarkable late-life creativity has been insufficiently appreciated (and he's at work on a score for Indiana Jones 5 ). The Violin Concerto No. 2 heard here was composed for Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2021, when he was 89, and as if that were not enough, Williams conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra crisply and with good control. He could certainly be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels, but this does not happen, either compositionally or as a conductor. The violin concerto has entirely fresh structural ideas. Those coming from Williams' work as a film composer will recognize his essential voice, but it is grafted onto novel relationships between the violin and orchestra. Consider the opening Prologue movement, where Williams leaves a space near the beginning for improvisation on Mutter's part. Her contribution has a hint of jazz but is not a jazz solo. Then Williams ingeniously...
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