VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Stradivarius in Rio Viktoria Mullova (violin), Matthew Barley (cello), Paul Clarvis (percussion), Luis Guello (dr, perc), Carioca Freitas (guitar) [ Onyx / CD - released 7/Apr/2014 ] Working with musicians from Rio and London, Viktoria has selected 13 wonderfully evocative songs from some of the great composers of Brazilian popular music including Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim, to name just two. |
BARTOK / ZAWINUL / KODALY / BRATSCH / HERMANN
The Peasant Girl Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Matthew Barley Ensemble [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "All of the performances have energy and imagination, and even though Kodaly's Duo, passionately played by Mullova and Barley, might seem at a tangent to the rest, it makes perfect sense as the culmination of a beautifully recorded album." (Five... |
J.S. BACH
Six sonatas for violin and harpsichord Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord) with Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba) [ Onyx Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2007 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH BBC Music August 2007 |
MARAIS / BENDA / BRAHMS / SRAVINSKY / RAVEL / SATIE
Reminiscences: Recital Favourites and Encores Yuri Bashmet (viola) / Mikhail Muntian (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "Bashmet is one of the last great figures in the long line of Russian instrumentalists stretching back to the Rubinstein brothers… in the mid-19th century. The sense of a musician living through each and every phrase is palpable throughout this... |
Yuri Moscow Soloists/Bashmet
Shostakovich/Sviridov/Vainberg [ Onyx / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] |