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East Meets West

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Nancy Zhou, Ye-Eun Choi

Format: Digital

With ASM Forte Forward, Anne-Sophie Mutter launches in collaboration with Alpha Classics a new album series dedicated to composers of our time. Each album will contain works written exclusively for her. The first album "East Meets West" will be released on 27 March 2026 on CD and LP. In 2026 and 2027, Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrates a special milestone: 50 years on the world's most important stages. She seizes this special opportunity to break new ground as a soloist, chamber musician, mentor, commissioner for new music and now also as a record producer. "I have deliberately chosen not only to preserve tradition, but to keep music alive, to renew it and to pass it on," she says. As an inspiration for entire generations of musicians and as a tireless icon of classical music, Anne-Sophie Mutter remains an artist in motion: curious, courageous and open to what music can be today and tomorrow. For decades she has been commissioning works from the most exciting composers of our time and supporting young talent. With ASM Forte Forward, Mutter launches her own recording series at Alpha Classics. She collaborates with musical companions, including current and former scholarship holders of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. The first album in the new series "East Meets West" brings together works by four composers with different backgrounds. The programme ranges from solo works to duos and chamber music to a work for violin and orchestra and orchestra.

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Tracklist

01 Likoo, for Violin Solo 06:37
02 Gran Cadenza, for Two Violins 08:53
03 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): I. Maestoso - Largo subito 02:16
04 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): II. Poco più tranquillo 02:05
05 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): III. Poco accelerando 01:46
06 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): IV. Poco più mosso (ma calmo!) 02:38
07 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): V. Pesante subito - Presto vivace subito 03:19
08 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): VI. Più pesante 02:37
09 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): VII. L'istesso tempo 02:30
10 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): VIII. Più mosso (molto ritmico) 02:47
11 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): IX. Molto vivace 02:48
12 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): X. Scherzando vivace (spielerisch, leicht) 02:13
13 Studie über Beethoven (String Quartet No. 6): XI. Feroce, agitato subito 03:49
14 Air-Homage to Sibelius, for Violin and Orchestra: I. Adagio - calmo - con moto 10:09
15 Air-Homage to Sibelius, for Violin and Orchestra: II. esitando... più... quasi a tempo 06:48