Franziska Pietsch, the “Anne-Sophie Mutter of East Germany”, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Cristian Măcelaru performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos
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Sergei Prokofiev’s two Violin Concertos mark the beginning and the end of his exile: his early, challenging neoclassicism and the artistic route from his “nomadic life” in exile back to his home country. Ever since her career as a promising star of the GDR, Franziska Pietsch has felt at home in the music of this Russian composer, making her an ideal interpreter of Prokofiev’s virtuosic and multifaceted idiom.
