Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova is a violinist primarily known for her great virtuosity and a wide-ranging repertory that includes many crossover pieces. On the serious side, she has been praised for her interpretations of various solo works by J.S. Bach, including the partitas and sonatas, as well as her readings of concertos by Brahms, Prokofiev (No. 2), Shostakovich (No. 1), and Sibelius. Her forays into more popular realms have included pieces by the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington. Over the years, Mullova has developed a reputation for her highly individual interpretations and for her ability to communicate with her concert audiences. She has also grown to favor historically correct instruments and practices.
Mullova was born on November 27, 1959, in Zhukovskiy, in the Moscow Oblast, then part of the Soviet Republic. She studied music at the Central Music School of Moscow, where her most important teacher was Volodar Bronin. She later studied with violin virtuoso Leonid Kogan at the Moscow Conservatory. Mullova had a meteoric rise owing to spectacular wins at two major competitions: in 1980, she took first prize at the Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition, and two years later won the gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The following year, she defected to the U.S. but eventually settled in England, where she lives with her husband, cellist Matthew Barley.
In the 1980s, Mullova made a number of highly successful recordings for Philips, including her first in 1985, with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which paired the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos. She followed that success in 1988 with another containing the Prokofiev Second and Shostakovich First, with André Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. By the end of that decade, she had appeared to great acclaim with many of the most important orchestras and conductors in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia.
In 1994, she founded the Mullova Chamber Ensemble, a group that quickly achieved international renown. After her marriage to Barley, Mullova developed an interest, through him, in jazz and other popular styles of music. In 2000, taking inspiration from a series of popular music concerts she gave on tour, Mullova made a recording for Philips entitled Through the Looking Glass, on which she performed music by Davis, Ellington, George Harrison, and other non-classical figures. Moving to the Onyx label in 2005, Mullova has steadily continued to issue recordings; among these are Bach: Sonatas (2007) with Ottavio Dantone, Peasant Girl (2011), and Music We Love (2020) with her son, bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado. In 2022, Mullova moved to the Signum Classics label for a historical-instrument reading of music by Schubert, with Alasdair Beatson, who has become a regular collaborator, on fortepiano. Mullova performs on the "Jules Falk" Stradivarius from 1723 and a 1750 Guadagnini violin.
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Arvo Pärt
Classical - Lançado por Onyx Classics em 21/09/2018
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Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major, Fantasie in C Major and Rondo in B Minor
Viktoria Mullova, Alasdair Beatson
Chamber Music - Lançado por Signum Records em 22/04/2022
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Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 1 and 8
Viktoria Mullova, Alasdair Beatson
Classical - Lançado por Signum Records em 03/05/2024
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Beethoven & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2003
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Bach: 6 Solo Sonatas & Partitas
Classical - Lançado por Onyx Classics em 26/03/2009
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Beethoven Violin Sonatas 4,5&7
Viktoria Mullova, Alasdair Beatson
Chamber Music - Lançado por PM Classics Ltd. em 26/03/2021
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Vivaldi: Concertos For Two Violins
Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Classical - Lançado por Archiv Produktion em 01/01/2008
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Bach, J.S.: Partitas Nos. 1 - 3
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 27/01/1994
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Live at the V&A
Oliver Zeffman, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Viktoria Mullova
Classical - Lançado por Ozero Records em 04/06/2021
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/1986
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Brahms: Violin Concerto
Viktoria Mullova, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 13/09/1994
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5
Viktoria Mullova, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 04/09/1989
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Stradivarius in Rio
Matthew Barley, Viktoria Mullova, Carioca Freitas
Chamber Music - Lançado por Onyx Classics em 07/04/2014
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Viktoria Mullova, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 23/03/1989
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Works For Solo Violin: J.S. Bach: Partita No. 1 / Bartók: Sonata For Solo Violin / Paganini: Introduction & Variations
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/05/1988
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Mozart: Violinkonzerte 1,3,4
Viktoria Mullova, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Classical - Lançado por Decca em 01/01/2002
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Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574: III. Andantino
Viktoria Mullova, Alasdair Beatson
Chamber Music - Lançado por Signum Records em 09/03/2022
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Music We Love
Viktoria Mullova, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Classical - Lançado por PM Classics Ltd. em 25/09/2020
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Through The Looking Glass
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/08/2000
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/1987
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Felix Mendelssohn : Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/1991
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