A.S. Mutter & John Williams at Tanglewood 2021

The world premiere performance of John Williams’ Violin Concerto No.2 from Tanglewood. Williams himself conducts the Boston SO with A.S Mutter as soloist.

C Major is delighted to present the world premiere performance of John Williams’ Violin Concerto No.2 from the Tanglewood Festival 2021. Williams himself conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the soloist is the work’s dedicatee, Anne-Sophie Mutter. The legendary composer and superstar violinist are old friends and have enjoyed worldwide success together in recent years. Providing an explosive opening to the concert is American composer-violinist Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst (2012) for string orchestra, full of fiery colours and energy and conducted by the BSO’s Music Director Andris Nelsons. He returns to the stage after the Violin Concerto for Copland’s Quiet City, a score that began life as incidental music for a play of the same name but found fame as a standalone concert piece.

With haunting solo parts for trumpet and English horn, this reflective work paints an atmospheric portrait of a city by night. The program ends with the suite Stravinsky put together in 1919 from his ballet The Firebird, which triumphantly premiered in Paris in 1910.

Programme:
Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Across the Stars; Montgomery: Starburst; Copland: Quiet City; Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird

Original title A.S. Mutter & John Williams at Tanglewood 2021
Genre Concert
Recording location Tanglewood Festival, July, 2021
Duration approx. 90'
Production Company ZDF/arte, Heliodor, C Major Entertainment
TV Director Michael Beyer
Composer John Williams, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Jessie Montgomery
Orchestra / Band Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor John Williams, Andris Nelsons
Soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter