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) |
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... |
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 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] "In the Concerto, Faust digs deep and her tone has a visceral immediacy that goes straight to the heart of the music...unafraid and unflinching, and vividly unleashes the passion in these pages with mesmeric power." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Isabelle Faust plays Bach Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2022 ] For the past several years, Isabelle Faust has been exploring Johann Sebastian Bach's music for the violin. First came her recording of the solo Sonatas and Partitas, which earned widespread acclaim. It was followed by the sonatas for violin and... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Isabelle Faust Solo Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] From Biber's famous 'Guardian Angel' Passacaglia to Guillemain's 'Amusements' and sonatas and fantasias by Matteis (father and son), Pisendel and Vilsmayr, Isabelle Faust offers us a panorama of European music for unaccompanied violin from the second... |
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 |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Violin & Piano Concertos, Concert Romanesc Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano) / Les Siecles [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/May/2025 ] The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration ... Ligeti's music defies criteria and codes. This recording provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of the musical language of one of the twentieth... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] Johann Sebastian Bach and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin go back a long way together! This recording, made with the welcome participation of Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit, follows the complete violin concertos (2019), which left a lasting... |
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... |
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) |
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 |
JANACEK / LUTOSLAWSKI / SZYMANOWSKI
Violin Works Isabelle Faust (violin) & Ewa Kupiec (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "An exquisitely shaded performance of the Janacek Sonata sets up heady takes on Szymanowski's Mythes and the fizzing virtuosity of Lutoslawski's Partita." (BBC Music) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto / Symphony no.5 "Reformation" Isabelle Faust (violin), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "[Faust] takes the radical decision to perform the work as scholars now think mid-19th-century violinists would have done" The Times |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Schumann Trilogy - Complete Concertos & Piano Trios [plus bonus Blu-ray] Isabelle Faust (violin) Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado [ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 14/Jun/2024 ] These albums left their mark on the Schumann discography: performing the works on period instruments, the artists suddenly revealed unexpected textures and sonorities. |
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... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Nos. 1-6, BWV1014-1019 Isabelle Faust (violin) & Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2018 ] "It's an eloquent and beautifully recorded homage to the composer and demands to be in the collection of all Bach lovers post-haste." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2018 |
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... |
Faust
Momentaufnahme I [ Bureau B / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Originally part of 2021's Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own stand alone release by popular demand. This is for all those that missed out on the limited edition box set... |
