Written by DCist guest contributor Michael Lodico. The Kennedy Center Concert Hall was packed Monday evening for the Washington Performing Arts Society’s third and final all-Mozart 250th birthday program. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis offered a program of five sonatas for piano and violin by Mozart. The performance was a rare instance of profound artistic collaboration. This exceptional quality was achieved through the simple consequence of Mutter and Orkis playing precisely at the…

After several feverish weeks of wall-to-wall concerts, the approach of Thanksgiving puts the Classical Music Agenda into a temporary lull this week. Not to worry: we have some concerts for you even this week, and next week we will come back out swinging. LA MUTTER: >> We mentioned this on Thursday, but it really is the main event of the week. Anne-Sophie Mutter, one of the leading violinists on the world stage, will give a…

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…

We thank my Ionarts colleague Jens F. Laurson, who has stepped in to contribute this week’s installment of DCist Goes to the Symphony, a review of a concert I had to miss because of a last-minute conflict. The National Symphony Orchestra’s season finale attempts to pull out all the stops it didn’t quite manage so far, and this week’s run of all-Beethoven concerts under the baton of Kurt Masur is an auspicious run-up to the…