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Musician of Classical
A.k.a. Viktoria Mullova (Виктория Муллова)
Russian violin virtuoso, born on 27 November 1959, near Moscow, Russia, ex USSR. She is married to Matthew Barley. Mullova has become highly regarded for her performances and recordings of a number of great violin concertos, compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and others. After studying at the Central Music School of Moscow and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Leonid Kogan, she won first prize at the 1980 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982. During a tour of Finland in 1983, Mullova and her lover Vakhtang Jordania (who posed as her accompanist so they could defect together), left the hotel in Kuusamo, after Jordania told the KGB officer who was watching them that Mullova was too sick from drinking to attend the afterparty. They left the Stradivarius owned by the Soviet Union on the hotel bed, jumped into a taxi, and drove several hundred kilometers to the Swedish border. In Sweden, they applied for political asylum. At that time, the Swedish police treated young, on-the-run musicians just like any other political defector and suggested they stay in a hotel over the weekend until the American embassy opened. So for two days they sat under false names in a hotel room, not even daring to go down to the reception desk, wisely, as it turned out, because their photographs were on the front page of every newspaper. Two days later they were already walking around Washington D.C. with American visas in their pockets. Mullova lives currently in Holland Park, London, England. Mullova has made many recordings including her debut release of the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius violin concertos which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque. She formed the Mullova Chamber Ensemble in the mid-1990s. The ensemble has toured Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands and has recorded the Bach violin concertos on Philips Classics. She was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for her recording of the Bach Partitas, and she won a 1995 Echo Klassik award, a Japanese Record Academy Award and a Deutsche Schallplattenkritik prize for her recording of the Brahms concerto. Her recording of the Brahms B major Trio (No 1) and Beethoven's Archduke Trio with André Previn and Heinrich Schiff was released in 1995, receiving a further Diapason d'Or. Mullova's international career as a soloist has included performances with The Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed as soloist and director with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Mullova plays on the "Jules Falk" Stradivarius (1723) and a 1750 Guadagnini. Her bows include a Baroque style bow by a modern maker, a Dodd and a Voirin.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Arvo Pärt | Arvo Pärt, Viktoria Mullova, Paavo Järvi | 2018 | Album |
Violin Concertos No. 2, Sonata For Two Violins & Solo Violin Sonata | Sergei Prokofiev – Viktoria Mullova, Paavo Järvi, hr-Sinfonieorchester | 2015 | Album |
3 Classic Albums | Viktoria Mullova | 2014 | Album |
Stradivarius In Rio | Viktoria Mullova | 2014 | Album |
Violin Concertos = Violinkonzerte | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Jean Sibelius - Viktoria Mullova, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 2014 | Album |
Concertos | Johann Sebastian Bach, Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina | 2013 | Album |
The Peasant Girl | Viktoria Mullova | 2011 | Album |
6 Solo Sonatas & Partitas | Viktoria Mullova, Johann Sebastian Bach | 2009 | Album |
Violinkonzert / Violinsonate Nr. 1 | Johannes Brahms - Viktoria Mullova • Piotr Anderszewski • Berliner Philharmoniker • Claudio Abbado | 2009 | Compil. |
Concertos For Two Violins | Antonio Vivaldi, Viktoria Mullova, Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon | 2008 | Album |
Finlandia, Karelia Suite, Violin Concerto | Jean Sibelius, Viktoria Mullova, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 2008 | Album |
Sonatas | Johann Sebastian Bach - Viktoria Mullova, Ottavio Dantone | 2007 | Album |
Violin Sonatas | Béla Bartók / Leoš Janáček / Claude Debussy / Sergei Prokofiev / Igor Stravinsky, Viktoria Mullova | 2006 | Compil. |
Recital | Viktoria Mullova, Katia Labèque | 2006 | Album |
Violin Concertos - 3 Partitas | Johann Sebastian Bach / Viktoria Mullova / Francois Leleux | 2006 | Album |
Knots | Fraser Trainer, Between The Notes With Viktoria Mullova | 2005 | Album |
Violin Concertos | Antonio Vivaldi / Viktoria Mullova / Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini | 2005 | Album |
Violin Concertos | Ludwig van Beethoven / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Viktoria Mullova, John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique | 2003 | Album |
Violin Concertos 1, 3 & 4 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Viktoria Mullova / Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment | 2002 | Album |
The 20th-Century Violin Concerto, Vol. 2 | Béla Bartók / Sir Edward Elgar / Dmitri Shostakovich / Karol Szymanowski / Kyung-Wha Chung / Viktoria Mullova / Henryk Szeryng | 2000 | Album |
Through The Looking Glass | Viktoria Mullova | 2000 | Album |
Sonatas For Violin And Piano | Viktoria Mullova, Piotr Anderszewski, Johannes Brahms | 1997 | Album |
Violin Concertos | Igor Stravinsky / Béla Bartók, Viktoria Mullova, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1997 | Album |
Sonatas For Violin And Piano | Johann Sebastian Bach / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach / Viktoria Mullova / Bruno Canino | 1996 | Album |
Sonatas For Violin And Piano | Claude Debussy / Leoš Janáček / Sergei Prokofiev, Viktoria Mullova, Piotr Anderszewski | 1995 | Album |
Beethoven Op 97 "Archduke" / Brahms Op 8 | Ludwig van Beethoven • Johannes Brahms • Viktoria Mullova • Heinrich Schiff • André Previn | 1995 | Album |
Partitas For Violin Solo | Johann Sebastian Bach / Viktoria Mullova | 1994 | Album |
Violin Concerto - Live In Tokyo | Johannes Brahms / Viktoria Mullova / Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado | 1994 | Album |
Violin Concertos / Violinkonzerte | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Viktoria Mullova / The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Sir Neville Marriner | 1991 | Album |
Divertimento / Sonata In G / Sonata No. 2 In D | Igor Stravinsky / Maurice Ravel / Sergei Prokofiev - Viktoria Mullova · Bruno Canino | 1990 | Album |
Violin Concertos | Dmitri Shostakovich • Sergei Prokofiev • Viktoria Mullova • The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra • André Previn | 1989 | Album |
Violin Concerto No. 1 • Violin Concerto No. 5 | Niccolò Paganini, Henri Vieuxtemps – Viktoria Mullova, Sir Neville Marriner, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 1989 | Album |
Works For Solo Violin | Johann Sebastian Bach / Béla Bartók / Niccolò Paganini, Viktoria Mullova | 1988 | Album |
Le Quattro Stagioni, The Four Seasons, Die Vier Jahreszeiten, Concerto Per L'Orchestra Di Dresda | Antonio Vivaldi, Viktoria Mullova, The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Claudio Abbado | 1987 | Album |
Violin Concertos = Violinkonzerte | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Jean Sibelius - Viktoria Mullova, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 1986 | Album |