Andris Nelsons conducts Williams, Strauss, and Ravel featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

John Williams wrote his Violin Concerto No. 2 for violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Strauss felt that audiences could only understand Death and Transfiguration if they knew specifically what it was about.

In La Valse, Ravel’s brilliantly orchestrated score captures the glitter and the violence of a society that, even as he was composing, had passed away.