Sunday 8 January 2012

Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole [Mutter/ Ozawa-Orchestre National De France] 

Wow!, just loved this today, and it's good to hear Mutter's interpretation of this wonderful work, a disc that is quickly becoming a favourite of mine, it's good to have several versions to really get into the essence of what Lalo is trying to say, and i count eight discs of this work i now own.

Anne-Sophie Mutter is German, she's now 48, and she recorded this work in 1985 at the age of 22, the front booklet cover photograph is by Christian Steiner, a nice double portrait, though a bit unfocused, seems like a shot that's been through too many reprints.

Amazingly it was the first movement i liked the best, 

Here's Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the first movement Allegro Non Troppo on YouTube.