Bartok & Stravinsky , Violin Concertos, Viktoria Mullova (2000)

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El registro que ahora compartimos fue grabado en 1997, en el pleno apogeo de Los Angeles Philharmonic, bajo la conducción de Esa-Pekka Salonen. Habían transcurrido ya las giras exitosas por Europa, el resonante triunfo en el Festival de Salzburgo de 1992, la producción de la opera Saint-François d'Assise de Olivier Messiaen; el Festival de Lucerna, y el Festival Stravinsky (1996) conducido junto con Pierre Boulez en el Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris.
Por su parte, la trayectoria de Viktoria Mullova no podía ser mejor: había sido nominada en 1995 al Grammy Award por su primera grabación de las Bach Partitas, y luego, en el mismo año recibió el Echo Klassik Award -un prestigiado premio Japonés- y el Deutsche Schallplattenkritik prize, por el disco Concerto para violín de Brahms. Cerro el año recibiendo el Diapason d'Or por el registro de Brahms B major Trio (no. 1) y el Trio Archduke de Beethoven que había grabado con Andre Previn y Heinrich Schiff.
Estamos pues, ante un disco extraordinario, que no ha tenido la distribución que merece.

Alex Ross escribio en The New Yorker: The Salonen era in L.A. may mark a turning point in the recent history of classical music in America. It is a story not of an individual magically imprinting his personality on an institution—what Salonen has called the "empty hype" of conductor worship—but of an individual and an institution bringing out unforeseen capabilities in each other, and thereby proving how much life remains in the orchestra itself, at once the most conservative and the most powerful of musical organisms. ... no American orchestra matches the L.A. Philharmonic in its ability to assimilate a huge range of music on a moment's notice. [Thomas] Adès, who first conducted his own music in L.A. [in 2005] and has become an annual visitor, told me, "They always seem to begin by finding exactly the right playing style for each piece of music—the kind of sound, the kind of phrasing, breathing, attacks, colors, the indefinable whole. That shouldn't be unusual, but it is." [John] Adams calls the Philharmonic "the most Amurrican [sic] of orchestras. They don't hold back and they don't put on airs. If you met them in twos or threes, you'd have no idea they were playing in an orchestra, that they were classical-music people."

1.- Violin Concerto in D major
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
with Viktoria Mullova
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

2.- Violin Concerto (No. 2) in B minor, Sz. 112, BB 117
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
with Viktoria Mullova
Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

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