Latest News: Classical, Isabelle Faust (Violin)
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust performs Britten's Violin Concerto 12th April 2024The German violinist yet again demonstrates absolute mastery of her instrument with commanding performances of works by Britten, including the world premiere recording of two pieces written whilst the composer was still a schoolboy.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust - Solo 20th October 2023The German violinist is at her intelligent, expressive best in a programme of works for unaccompanied violin by Matteis père et fils, Pisendel, Guillemain, Vilsmayr and Biber.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles 3rd March 2023Violinist Isabelle Faust's relationship with the music of Stravinsky continues, with François-Xavier Roth and his period-instruments orchestra Les Siècles joining her in an album built around the chamber-inspired Violin Concerto.
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Recording of the Week,
Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust perform György Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente 19th August 2022An extraordinary tour de force from the soprano and violinist duo, performing the Hungarian composer's great song cycle setting fragments of texts by Franz Kafka.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat from Isabelle Faust and Dominique Horwitz 27th August 2021David enjoys Isabelle Faust and friends' historically-informed account of Stravinsky's sardonic tale, with lively narration from Dominique Horwitz.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky & Eötvös from Pablo Heras-Casado and the Orchestre de Paris 9th April 2021The Spanish conductor delivers a very Gallic Rite of Spring, whilst Isabelle Faust is bewitched and bewitching on the world premiere recording of Péter Eötvös's 'Alhambra' Concerto.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust plays Bach Concertos 15th March 2019The German violinist joins forces with oboist Xenia Löffler and Bernhard Forck's Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time.
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Recording of the Week,
Late Debussy sonatas from Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov and friends 16th November 2018Harmonia Mundi's ten-album series commemorating the centenary of Debussy's death continues with the Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, and Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto 18th August 2017Isabelle Faust shows a wholly new side to one of the most well-known and widely-performed concertos in the violin repertoire.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov perform César Franck's Violin Sonata 19th May 2017James is enthralled by a new recording of music for violin and piano by César Franck and Ernest Chausson.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust plays Mozart's Violin Concertos 28th October 2016David enjoys Isabelle Faust's new complete set of Mozart's Violin Concertos with Il Giardino Armonico.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's Violin Concerto 23rd March 2015David listens to Isabelle Faust's account of Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Recording of the Week,
Isabelle Faust performs Bartók Violin Concertos 15th July 2013Faust combines technical brilliance with a performance full of bite and character, and demonstrates a natural affinity with Daniel Harding and his orchestra, who offer vivid accompaniment throughout and no shortage of incisive rawness of their own where required.