More By Artist: Faust
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op 54 / Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 80 Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] '[T]he use of an early 19th-century fortepiano, here a Streicher of 1847, brings textural clairty, enhanced by the exceptionally subtle and sensitive dialogue between the two superb string players.' (BBC Music) |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Sonatas Alexander Melnikov (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet) Teunis van der Zwart (althorn), etc [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] 'The patron saint of neglected instruments, Hindemith composed more than 30 sonatas for very diverse resources … The Hindemith anniversary of 2013 opened the gates to a welcome flood of excellent recordings, and this new release stands high among the |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente Anna Prohaska (soprano), Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] The Kafka-Fragmente, settings of excerpts from the diary, letters and a posthumous text by the author of The Trial, take the form of an intimate confession with no real narrative thread. Kurtág chose a soprano voice and a solo violin to express this... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, (J.S.): Violin Concertos / Sinfonias / Overture / Sonatas Isabelle Faust (violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] "Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto." BBC Music Concerto Choice June 2019 |
PIETRO ANTONIO LOCATELLI
Locatelli: il virtuoso, il poeta (Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi) Isabelle Faust (violin) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Locatelli was one of the most impressive violin virtuosos of the first half of the eighteenth century. Considered today as a sort of Baroque Paganini, he left picturesque, colourful, strikingly modern pieces for his instrument. A few years after a... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works Isabelle Faust (violin) / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "Three-dimensional - with a startling inner clarity and rhythmic keenness that brings it off the page in ways you couldn't imagined.Honestly, it's like having one's ears freshly syringed" Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral' BLU-RAY Isabelle Faust (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Sep/2016 ] "Faust makes light of the technical difficulties of Beethoven's sometimes awkwardly-written Violin Concerto." BBC Music Five Stars |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English version) Isabelle Faust (violin), Dominique Horwitz (narrator) with ensemble / Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] "Faust and her colleagues do indeed evoke the mise en scène of performers pulling up in a dusty square late one afternoon and performing from the back of an old truck" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Chamber |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos Isabelle Faust (violin) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "her sound growing out of the corporate entity to glitter, coax, snarl and soar as required…[a] thought-provoking and eminently enjoyable cycle" Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - RECORDING OF THE YEAR |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto & Trio Op. 65 Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano), Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Almost twenty years ago, Isabelle Faust and Jiří Bělohlávek established a new milestone in the discography of Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The coupling, the tumultuous Trio in F minor, inaugurated the violinist's long and fruitful collaboration with... |
BEETHOVEN / ALBAN BERG
Beethoven / Berg: Violin Concertos Isabelle Faust (violin) / Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The Beethoven and Berg Violin Concertos aren't commonly paired on disc. However, in this case it seems like an inspired piece of programme planning. Outstanding performances of both concertos, then; I'll want to return to them often." (Gramophone... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / PETER EOTVOS
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps / Eötvös: "Alhambra" Concerto Pablo Heras-Casado, Isabelle Faust, Orchestre de Paris [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] More than a century after the historic scandal of its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, The Rite of Spring has established itself as one of the 'musts' of the modern orchestral repertory. And if the source of the telluric forces generated... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Harmonia Mundi 50th Anniversary Boxed Set Anonymous 4, Huelgas Ensemble, Fretwork, Andreas Scholl, William Christie, Andrew Manze, Jerusalem Quartet, Alan Planes, Richard Egarr, Isabelle Faust [ Harmonia Mundi / 30 CD Box Set - released 13/Oct/2007 ] 50 WORKS / 30 CDs / OVER 36 HOURS OF MUSIC Described by the New York Times as "one of Europe's finest independent record companies" |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas (with works by Dietrich & Schumann) Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2015 ] 'The elegance of Brahms's craft is still apparent, especially his ability to create long singing melodic lines of great sweep and complexity.' (Chamber Pick of the Month BBC Music November 2015) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano & violin Vol 1. Isabelle Faust (violin) & Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "For those attuned to the less refined sound of period instruments, Faust and Melnikov demand to be heard." Gramophone |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "...they meld their ensemble seamlessly and attend to minute details of phrasing and dynamics without losing sight of the shape of each movement." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Chamber |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Violin concerto / Verklärte Nacht [Transfigured Night] Isabelle Faust (violin) / Daniel Harding, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, A. Tamestit & J-G. Queyras [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Faust brings a fabulous range of colour and expressive nuance to this music, and Daniel Harding matches her understanding in the way he teases out the wiry orchestral textures around her violin lines." The Guardian Five Stars |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56 / Piano Trio, Op. 36 Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin Vol 1 Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "Hearing this performance, I was convinced more than ever that Faust is one of the greatest violinists of her generation. Needless to say Harmonia Mundi's recorded sound is beautiful. I cannot wait for the next instalment." (Keith) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin Vol 2 Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "there is still a wonderful security and confidence about her approach, a flexibility in her phrasing, and a remarkable control of dynamic and colour." (Guardian) |
