ARVO PÄRT. Viktoria Mullova, Paavo Järvi. Onyx 2018

Onyx 2018

Arvo Pärt
“Darf ich…”
“Passacaglia”
“Tabula rasa”
“Fratres”
“Spiegel im Spiegel” for violin and piano

VIKTORIA MULLOVA violin
FLORIAN DONDERER 2nd violin (“Tabula rasa”)
LIAM DUNACHIE piano (“Spiegel im Spiegel”)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor PAAVO JÄRVI
LIAM DUNACHIE piano

Reviews:

“Underpinning lovely playing, it’s the performers’ sensitivity to Part’s mathematically-inspired structures that lends real eloquence to his soundworld. The sense of proportion in tempo, phrase arc and inner voices is striking.”
*****  (Performance) /  **** (Recording)
BBC Music Magazine, January 2019

“This is not music that hinges on sudden shifts and sharp contrasts. However, at its core lies the age-old dichotomy between freedom and control, head and heart…Mullova brilliantly manages to tease out these dichotomies on this new recording… In Fratres, she approaches each variation from a different angle. Sap and rosin fly off the bow in the coruscating arpeggio figurations of the opening chord sequence.”
Gramophone Awards Issue 2018