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“It’s one of the most moving, if not for me, the deepest running piece for violin written in the last hundred years.” — Anne-Sophie Mutter

This edition of On the Music features violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, talking about Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens, which will receive its New York Premiere on the Philharmonic concerts of March 31 and April 1–2, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. Also on the program: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, Little Russian, and Prokofiev’s Overture in B-flat major, American. 

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