The choice of composers and works represented in ‘Back to the Future’ is entirely mine. And it is a very subjective choice. Each piece is distinctive, and I found extraordinary contrasts between them: for example, only seven years separate Webern’s Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7 of 1910 and the Respighi’s Sonata for Violin and Piano of 1917, yet they could scarcely be more contradictory. In the Webern you have this sparse explosive array of sounds while Respighi sets you dreaming of Brahms and Italy. This immense variety recurs throughout the repertory. Is there a common thread?
Yes: I have chosen pieces that exhibit color and expressivity - none of these pieces was composed as an experiment or as a purely intellectual statement. All of this chosen music is deeply rooted in the past without trying to copy the past. All of it expresses the coloristic quality, the emotional quality of the instrument, the sculpting quality of the sound production that the voice and the violin have in common.
(Anne-Sophie Mutter, Spring 2000)

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Anne-Sophie Mutter - Back to the future 1988-1997
-Selected 20th-century violin works
(4CD Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg 2000)

 1. Jean Sibelius - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47 -1 A 
 2. Jean Sibelius - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47 - 2 A 
 3. Jean Sibelius - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47 -3 A 
 4. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 1 
 5. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 2  
 6. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 3
 7. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 4
 8. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 5
 9. Krzysztof Penderecki - Metamorphosen (concerto for Violin and Orchestra) 6
10. Bela Bartok-Sonata for violin and piano no. 2  01 Molto moderato 
11. Bela Bartok-Sonata for violin and piano no. 2  02 Allegretto
12. Norbert Moret- En Reve Concerto for violin... - 01 myterieux et envoutant 
13. Norbert Moret- En Reve Concerto for violin... - 02 Dialogue
14. Norbert Moret- En Reve Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra - 03 Azur 
15. Bela Bartok-Sonata for violin and orchestra no. 2  01 Allergro non troppo
16. Bela Bartok-Sonata for violin and orchestra no. 2  02 Allegro scherzando
17. Bela Bartok-Sonata for violin and orchestra no. 2  03 Allegro molto
18. Strawinsky - Violin Concerto - 1. Toccata
19. Strawinsky - Violin Concerto - 2. Aria I
20. Strawinsky - Violin Concerto - 3. Aria II
21. Strawinsky - Violin Concerto - 4. Capriccio
22. Lutoslawski - Partita - 1. Allegro giusto
23. Lutoslawski - Partita - 2. Ad libitum 
24. Lutoslawski - Partita - 3. Largo    [0:06:23.00]
25. Lutoslawski - Partita - 4. Ad libitum 
26. Lutoslawski - Partita - 5. Presto
27. Lutoslawski - Chain 2 - 1. Ad libitum 
28. Lutoslawski - Chain 2 - 2. A battuta 
29. Lutoslawski - Chain 2 - 3. Ad libitum 
30. Lutoslawski - Chain 2 - 4. A battuta -  Ad libitum - A battuta
31. Maurice Ravel - Tzigane  (Rapsodie de concert for Violin & Orchestra) 
32. Wolfgang Rihm - Gesungene Zeit - 1. Beginning  
33. Wolfgang Rihm - Gesungene Zeit - 2. Bar 
34. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto - 1. Andante-Allegretto 
35. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto - 2. Allegro-Adagio

Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra. 
Lambert Orkis, piano.

Conductor: Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Krzysztof Penderecki, Andre Previn, Paul Sacher, Witold Lutoslawski.