The beautiful and technically prodigious violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will play a recital this coming Monday evening (November 20, 8 p.m.) at the Kennedy Center. With pianist Lambert Orkis (who teaches in Philadelphia and plays keyboard regularly as part of the National Symphony here in Washington), she will perform a program of five of the Mozart violin sonatas (warning: that’s a .PDF file), all recorded on the duo’s recent 4-CD complete set of the Mozart violin sonatas. For over a year now, Mutter has commemorated the Mozart Year (the composer was born 250 years ago) with an ambitious undertaking called the Mozart Project, a recording of all the major Mozart compositions for violin. In fact, when she answered the Proust Questionnaire, Mutter stated that her historical heroes and heroines were Mozart, Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, in that order. I think she likes Mozart.

Mutter and Orkis have been performing Mozart recitals all over Asia and Europe for months. They conclude their tour this month in the United States, with concerts in St. Paul, Chicago, Boston, New York, and ultimately ending here in Washington. Monday’s concert (in which she will play the sonatas K. 304, 376, 379, 454, and 481) is sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Society, and tickets ($50 to $105) are still available.