Word: viktoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firmly set in contemplation of the coming battle. No makeup or jewelry lends even a hint of frivolity to her appearance as she wraps one large hand around the neck of her Strad, tucks it confidently under her chin and prepares to stare down the ghost of Paganini. For Viktoria Mullova, there are no frills in concert, just her, the night and the music. & "I work better under pressure," she says. "I am more concentrated...
Anne- Sophie Mutter and Viktoria Mullova head a wave of female performers that also includes Kyung- Wha Chung, Nadja Salerno- Sonnenberg and Midori. They are ebullient and intense, fiery and formidable; when they play, the intoxicating perfume of the theater fills the air. "Music is a form of love, the highest form of love," says Mutter. "It is passion...
...however. Leningrad Composer Andrei Petrov's 1980 Violin Concerto is a sturdy showpiece that picks up momentum from its opening recitative to its blazing vivo finale; it got an otherworldly performance from Soloist Sergei Stadler, a baby-faced firebrand who shared first prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition with Viktoria Mullova. Sergei Slonimsky's sprightly two-minute Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes...
TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO; SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Philips). Fiddle fireworks from Viktoria Mullova...
Boston Symphony Orchestra: featuring violinist Viktoria Mullova, Symphony Hall, Boston...