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Article: Arts: Classical: Zing went the strings The conductor Andre Previn and his wife, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, have cut a CD together. It's time to swing with Gershwin, they tell MICHAEL CHURCH
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2003
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Andre Previn and Anne-Sophie Mutter sit side by side on the hotel
sofa: birds on a branch, but of a different feather. Hunched in his
woolly sweater, Previn comes across like a quizzical crow; the fifth
Mrs Previn, erect and immaculate in silks, is more like a bird of
paradise. Hand on knee, hand on hand, they seem a great advertisement
for love's middle- aged dream, and to hell with the 34-year age gap.
To celebrate the union, they've made a suitably hybrid record,
because Tango Song and Dance is not really any of those things.
Previn's work of that name begins with a track in tango rhythm, but
it is full of harmonic surprises. The "Song" track may be expressive
in a terse sort of way, ...