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…

FRIDAY: The Mozart Year is almost halfway over — the man’s birthday was January 27 — but classical concert programming continues to celebrate it. Opera Lafayette gets in the game tonight and tomorrow (June 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m.) with a concert performance of Mozart’s first important opera, Idomeneo, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park. The vocal cast promises to be excellent, including an up-and-coming young singer named Millicent Scarlett, who…

As you know from reading last week’s Classical Music Agenda, we are at the beginning of a Mozart Year, with the 250th anniversary of the great Austrian composer’s birth approaching on January 27. If you set foot in a classical concert in the next couple months, chances are good that you will hear Mozart. Considering the number of concerts we attend, Mozart fatigue could set in early. Not to worry, as there is still enough…