This wonderful evening featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, one of the greatest violinists of modern times accompanied on the piano by Lambert Orkins who himself is a international recognized chamber musician was held January 24, 2020 at the First Baptist Church.

Pieces performed were as following:

Violin and Piano Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23   LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

I. Presto
II. Andante scherzoso, più Allegretto
III. Allegro molto

Violin and Piano Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 “Spring”

I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto espresso
III. Scherzo, Allegro molto -Trio
IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo

Violin and Piano Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer”

I. Adagio sostenuto – Presto
II. Andante

Anne-Sophie Mutter has been an international figure in the world’s major concert halls for more than 40 years, making her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor, and visionary. The four-time Grammy Award winner is equally committed to traditional works and the future of music, having given world premieres of 27 works by composers who include Unsuk Chin, Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutosławski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm, and John Williams. She also dedicates herself to supporting future generations of musicians through benefit projects and the world-renowned Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
Ms. Mutter’s 2019/2020 season is dedicated to commemorating the 250th birthday of Beethoven, with multiple performances of his Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto with Orchestre symphonie de Montréal, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, among others. In January 2020, Mutter returns to the United States for a five-city recital tour, playing Beethoven sonatas with her longtime artistic partner Lambert Orkis.

Lambert Orkis’s multi-decade international performing career encompasses traditional and contemporary music performed on modern and period instruments, and includes more than eleven years of touring as a partner with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and more than thirty years appearing with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter to capacity audiences in the world’s finest performance venues. Their many recordings and DVDs for Deutsche Grammophon include the complete sonatas by Mozart (Choc de l’année Award), Beethoven (Grammy Award), and Brahms. In acknowledgment of his accomplishments, Mr. Orkis was honored with the Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany.

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