You have to wonder, though, aside from the fact that Deutsche Grammophon will sell lots of these, what more is offered here, musically speaking, besides a chance for the label to show off one of its true superstars. And after you’ve pushed past the cool colors and overlapping flaps of the disc case, you’ll discover that the music on the disc actually is very well performed–it is Anne-Sophie Mutter, after all–and expertly recorded. Okay, so the liner notes explain how Mutter wouldn’t have made this disc except for being inspired by a visit to the studio of painter Gotthard Graubner she wants us to hear with our eyes as well as our ears. The trouble with a recording like this is all the distractions: the dazzling packaging, the video, the multitudinous images of the alternately sultry, serious, playful, and sophisticated Anne-Sophie Mutter and her black-garbed band of backup boys, who look like refugees from a rock video but who really are part of a very decent chamber orchestra, the Trondheim Soloists.
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