RCO: Nelsons conducts Sibelius with Anne-Sophie Mutter

“Stradivari on eight cylinders” was the headline for the rich cornucopia of sound that Anne-Sophie Mutter poured out with the Sibelius Violin Concerto. “Her Stradivari lets her sing the arches of melody with warm vibrato and lends real fire to her double-stopping; she stages great leaps as soaring stairways to heaven or headlong descents to hell”, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung with admiration. “It can be played differently, but not better.” (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) Mutter’s violin concerto is wonderfully complemented by Shostakovich’s 10th, in which Nelsons truly triumphs: “World-class, these exponents from Amsterdam” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)