1 TOADA (CLAUDIO NUCCI)
2 LINDA FLOR (AI IOIO) (HENRIQUE VOGELER) 
3 SEGUE TEU DESTINO (SUELI COSTA) 
4 VILAREJO (MARISA MONTE) 
5 LUZ DO SOL (CAETANO VELOSO) 
6 BRASILEIRINHO (WALDIR AZEVEDO) 
7 DINDI (ANTONIO CARLOS (TOM) JOBIM) 
8 CHOVENDO NA ROSEIRA (JOBIM) 
9 BALADA DE UM LOUCO (ARNALDO BAPTISTA) 
10 TICO TICO (ZEQUINHA DE ABREU) 
11 FALANDO DE AMOR (JOBIM)
12 ROSA (PIXINGUINHA)
13 POR TODA MINHA VIDA (JOBIM)

Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Matthew Barley (cello) 
Paul Clarvis (percussion)
Luis Guello (drums, percussion)
Carioca Freitas (guitar)

Brazil and everything Brazilian is going to be very much in the news in 2014 with the World Cup taking place there. Brazilian music and the spirit of Rio will be everywhere, so Viktoria Mullova’s new album ‘Stradivarius in Rio’ arrives at just the right time!

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. All the songs are heard in stunning new arrangements and you will be surprised at how many you know. 'Stradivarius in Rio' is a wonderfully evocative album that captures the sound and spirit of Rio and its unique music. --- prestoclassical.co.uk

Viktoria Mullova and friends capture the spirit and atmosphere of Rio in this collection of songs by some of the greatest Brazilian popular music composers of the 20th century such as Claudio Nucci, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Caetano Veloso. Joined by musicians from Rio and the UK in superb new arrangements of classic Brazilian songs, Stradivarius in Rio is a wonderfully uplifting album that will transport you in an instant to exotic, sultry, vibrant, colourful and romantic Rio! --- onyxclassics.com

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Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne (after Pulcinella)
1.Introduction: Allegro Moderato
2.Serenata: Larghetto
3.Tarantella: Vivace
4.Gavotte con due variazioni - Allegretto - Allegretto piu tosto moderato
5.Scherzino: Presto alla breve
6.Minuetto – Finale

Franz Schubert: Fantasie for violin and piano D934
7.I Andante Molto
8.II Allegretto
9.III Andantino
10.IV Tempo primo - Allegro Vivace - Allegretto – Presto

Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata (1927)
11.I Allegretto
12.II Blues: Moderato
13.III Perpetuum Mobile: Allegro

14.Clara Schumann - Romanze for violin and piano, op 22/1: No 1 in Db Major (ré bémol majeur. Ds-Dur)

Viktoria Mullova – violin
Katia Labèque – piano

This release by violinist Viktoria Mullova and pianist Katia Labèque (their labels, Labèque's KML and Onyx, which Mullova helped found) sees both these well-known artists stepping out from their usual roles. Mullova has been an impressive exponent of the major violin concertos who has moved into Baroque music in recent years with some success, while Labèque is known for her duo-piano work with sister Marielle (KML stands for Katia and Marielle Labèque). They fill their new roles not just adequately but spectacularly. One major attraction here is the program, a varied creation that would have been unlikely to show up on a major label but that gives Mullova a chance to speak very different sets of musical lines. The contrasts in sound here are striking, even within individual works. The opening Suite Italienne of Stravinsky is a sort of précis of Pulcinella, made in 1933 by violinist Samuel Dushkin and Stravinsky himself. Its six movements proceed from close adherence to Baroque models in this neo-Classic work to the somewhat more tense, abstract quality of the music from later in the original work. Some performers have given this suite a stately, antique feeling throughout, but Mullova and Labèque show that it can stand up to more energetic playing, and greater contrasts between sections, without losing its gravity. The Schubert Fantasie for violin and piano, D. 934, is a late and anomalous work, featuring something quite rare in Schubert's output: showpiece virtuosity in its Andantino third movement. Here the listener gets something of the Mullova familiar from her concerto recordings: sharp and commanding. The musicians change gears yet again with the Sonata for violin and piano of Ravel, really a collection of three individual pieces with its famous "Blues" slow movement flanked by an ambitious first movement and perpetual-motion finale. If there is one complaint to be made here, it is that Labèque takes a while to warm up to the structural contrasts between violin and piano that are necessary to make the first movement work. The "Blues" movement, however, is superb, with Mullova executing the jazzy slides and the work's evocation of rhythmic freedom with aplomb. Clara Schumann's Romance for violin and orchestra, Op. 22/1, makes a satisfying conclusion to the program. Among the ancillary features of this release that might be mentioned are clear sound and the contemporary design of the cover, all of which would bode well for a tour supporting the recording that went beyond the usual big-city stops. ---James Manheim, AllMusic Review

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