Is Anne-Sophie Mutter, in her precise and powerful playing, the Karajanian Glenn Gould of violin virtuosos - with the difference that while Gould's playing is simply precise and unemotional - Mutter's playing is precise - but at the same time deeply emotional - without being sentimentally sweet.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter has been at the top of violin playing for an incredible 50 years.
The legendary conductor Hetbert von Karajan discovered Mutter's talent and led her to her first recording when she was only 12 years old. And Mutter is still playing.
When you listen to Karajan conducting, you can't help but think that Karajan's striking precision without sentimentality has been absorbed into Mutter's playing - although that uncompromising precision must already have been in Mutter's nature - but the special feature is that Mutter, as an openly emotional person, has also brought deep emotionality without sentimentality to her playing.
When Anne-Sophie Mutter's playing can sometimes both scratch and sometimes brush people's emotional depths.
When Mutter's playing strikes like lightning through the unfortunate sentimental sweetness of your time - and gives what classical music should give - genuine emotionality extended with the hand of empathy - without sentimental external self-centered sweet courtship.
That is why Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the great emotional phenomena in the history of music, without the sentimentality that feeds human self-centeredness.
The task of emotionality in great art is to lead people to emotional connection through emotionality - not to raise people to self-centeredness through sentimentality.
When sentimentality is present - me and my feelings, take care of me - so that I don't have to take care of you. Like a self-centered child.
Emotions and empathy are a bridge between people - emotions and sentimentality are a moat between the fortresses of selfishness. In which case, a sentimental cultural landscape is almost nauseating.
Therefore, genuine emotionality in art without sentimentality is a call to empathetic humanity - a call to empathetically look at and get to know people's lives in this time and in history as people's lives emotionally authentically are and were.
Thus forming a great arc of empathetic culture through art.
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