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SATURDAY OCTOBER 14

ANNE-S0PHIE MUTTER: VIVACE

Screening: Sky Arts, 8.30pm Streaming: Sky Go Ahead of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s concert dates here (she’s playing Music of John Williams with the NZSO in November), this sanctioned documentary offers a chance to hear the famed German violinist talk about her life, as the onetime child prodigy celebrates her 60th birthday. She described Sigrid Faltin’s film as “an attempt to bring classical music out of the shadows and place it at the heart of

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