Presto Editor's Choice
September 2020

Viktoria Mullova, Misha Mullov-Abbado

Mullov-Abbado: Blue Deer
Laércio De Freitas: O Cabo Pitanga
Schumann: Träumerei (from Kinderszenen, Op. 15)
Mullov-Abbado: Brazil
Shalom Chanoch: Shir Lelo Shem
McLaughlin, J: Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
Lenine: O Silencio Das Estrelas
Mullov-Abbado: Little Astronaut
Carlos Jobim: Sabia
Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 1 in B minor, BWV1014
trad.: Caico

Violinist Viktoria Mullova and son, the bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado in music they love - a very personal and affectionate collection of music ranging from traditional Brazilian folk songs to JS Bach, via Antonio Carlos Jobim and Schumann.

Much of the music on this album has been played by mother and son together for many years - classical and contemporary jazz, folk songs from family music making has now made it to their concert programmes.

"I loved the stark simplicity of Mullov-Abbado’s The Linden Tree on the Hermes Experiment’s Here We Are (an Editor’s Choice in July), and there’s a similar sparse beauty to everything on this eclectic recital with his violinist mother, which encompasses Bach and Brazilian folk-songs as well as three of his own compositions – the Kreisler-ish Little Astronaut waltz is a gem. Their louche, jazz-inflected take on Schumann’s Träumerei won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it worked for me." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, September 2020

Sumera: Theme from 'Spring Fly'