Ravel:
Violin Sonata in G major
Schubert:
Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934
Schumann, C:
Romances for Violin & Piano Op. 22
Stravinsky:
Suite italienne

A real event and highlight of Onyx's Autumn schedule - the first collaboration on disc of long-time recital partners and virtuoso soloists in their own right, Russian Viktoria Mullova and French pianist Katia Labeque. Recorded in ideal studio conditions at IRCAM, Paris, December 2005. Fascinating programme spanning 100 years from the rarely played late Schubert Fantasy to Ravel's 1927 Violin Sonata and Stravinsky's reworking of Pulcinella in the Suite Italienne of 1933. Mullova and Labeque have toured this programme many times and will do so again this. "The playing is deeply rewarding in their glittering accounts of the Stravinsky suite - the 1933 transcription of Pulicinella - and the Ravel sonata, Mullova revelling in the jazzy glissandi of the central blues movement. If one has heard more inward accounts of the Schubert, the virtuosity here is never in doubt, and the Clara piece is a charming rarity. Highly recommended." - The Sunday Times (UK)