ムター・プレイズ・ジョン・ウィリアムズ

ジョン・ウィリアムズの新作ヴァイオリン協奏曲がブルーレイでもリリースに!
巨匠が描く、音によるムターの肖像。

映画音楽のレジェンド、ジョン・ウィリアムズとヴァイオリンの女王アンネ=ゾフィー・ムター。トップ・アーティストの長年の友情とコラボレーションの結実である新作ヴァイオリン協奏曲の世界初演となったタングルウッドでの演奏に、同年の秋にボストンのシンフォニーホールで演奏されたジョン・ウィリアムズの映画音楽の名作をカップリング。2つの公演の模様を映像と3種のオーディオで楽しめる超豪華版。
日本語字幕入りのインタビュー映像:ジョン・ウィリアムズとアンネ・ゾフィー・ムターのインタビュー(25分)、アンネ・ゾフィー・ムターのみ(7分)
全楽曲をステレオ、サラウンド、ドルビー・アトモスの3種類の音声で収録。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Certainly, releases of John Williams music, often conducted by the composer himself, have sold well, but his remarkable late-life creativity has been insufficiently appreciated (and hes at work on a score for Indiana Jones 5). The Violin Concerto No. 2 heard here was composed for Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2021, when he was 89, and as if that were not enough, Williams conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra crisply and with good control. He could certainly be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels, but this does not happen, either compositionally or as a conductor. The violin concerto has entirely fresh structural ideas. Those coming from Williams work as a film composer will recognize his essential voice, but it is grafted onto novel relationships between the violin and orchestra. Consider the opening Prologue movement, where Williams leaves a space near the beginning for improvisation on Mutters part. Her contribution has a hint of jazz but is not a jazz solo. Then Williams ingeniously reintegrates the violin into the orchestral texture. The Rounds of the second movement are not the folk polyphonic form but murmuring "circular" figures in the orchestra, overlaid with Impressionistic and, here, jazz-like harmonies. The entire concerto holds ones attention, and Mutters performance reflects close empathy between soloist and conductor. The program closes with arrangements of three of Williams big movie themes, and here, Mutter pours on the sentiment. So there is something for everyone in this remarkable document, a best-seller in the spring of 2022.