Harmonia Mundi: HMC901944

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, etc.

Beethoven did not intend his Violin Concerto as a spectacular virtuoso work, but rather as a dialogue between soloist and orchestra. The ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata, on the other hand, notorious for its technical difficulty, must be played in a highly concertante style. Isabelle Faust has chosen the ideal partners to perform these two masterpieces.

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, etc.

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HMC901944

Beethoven:

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer'

Isabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek

"When he first joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as principal guest conductor in 1995, the position was regarded as a graveyard as far as future prospects in the UK were concerned: no previous principal guest had ever gone on to hold the top post with it or any other British orchestra. Belohlavek bucked the trend. He has proved that you don't need to be a showman to make an impact. In the concert hall audiences instinctively recognise that his priority is the music, not his ego. His dry Bohemian charm has become more pronounced with age, and the same maturing process has informed his music-making. Andrew Clark,The Financial Times 7th July 2007

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Press comments:

"This recording suggests Faust has accepted the challenge and found a voice of her own with which to express the eternal truths of these two monuments." Andrew Clark, Financial Times

"Isabelle Faust plays with her customary pure, silvery tone and dead-centre intonation. Hers is an essentially Classical reading, swiftly paced, subtly and gracefully inflected. (...) In the "Kreutzer", Faust and Melnikov form a true creative partnership, relishing their elegant jousting in the outer movements and finding ever-new colourings and inflexions." Richard Wigmore, Daily Telegraph

"The world is not short of good recordings of the Beethoven Violin Concerto but Isabelle Faust’s performance ranks with the finest…Her sound is exquisite, her phrasing intelligent, while her playful, military cadenzas are inspired. Impressive too is Faust’s account of the Kreutzer Sonata" Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday

"Isabelle Faust gives a poetic and technically irreproachable performance of the concerto…There have been several fine recordings of this sublime concerto lately and this is among the finest." Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telepgraph

"The ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata in excellent, with some winning spiccato matched by Melnikov’s piano in true collaborative chamber-music style." Richard Lawrence, Classic FM Magazine

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