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... |
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) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos nos.1 & 2 / Sonata for violin and piano op.134 Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, with Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "He makes his case well. The First Concerto is all rampaging dissonances and erotic regret; the Second (1957) masks nerve-racking syncopations beneath its surface brilliance...[the sonata] a compelling performance in which logic and rhetoric combine... |
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 |
ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
SATIE
Avant-Dernieres Pensees Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with Isabelle Faust (violin) & Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Tharaud deals out Satie's surrealism with style, from tongue-in-cheek Chopin quotes to final cadences that go on and on ... and then some. There are pieces which poke fun at precious Debussian soundscapes and others which take sides with the acerbic... |
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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Edition (Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber, Instrumental & Vocal works) Daniel Barenboim, Cecile Ousset, Karl Leister, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Derek Han, Isabelle Faust, Nash Ensemble, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 58 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2014 ] Brilliant Classics is proud present their Brahms Edition. Now the amazingly varied output by Brahms is there to be enjoyed to its full extent. In excellent recordings on 58 CD's and at an unreasonably low price. |
Faust
Faust IV [ Caroline Records / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] Originally released in 1973, this is the original album, now re-mastered, along with a second disc of Faust rarities and alternate takes. |
Faust
Faust (LP) [ Back to Black / LP - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The impact of Faust cannot be overstated; their debut album was truly a revolutionary step forward in the progress of "rock music". It was pressed on clear vinyl, packaged in a clear sleeve, with a clear plastic lyric insert. The black X-ray of a... |
Faust
The Faust Tapes (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late '60s and early '70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, they rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock 'n' roll to start a back-to-basics... |
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... |
Faust
Momentaufnahme II [ 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... |
Faust/Auryn Quartet
Boccherini:flute Quintets [ Cpo / CD ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 - 3 Isabelle Faust (violin), Silke Avenhaus (piano) [ CPO / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] |
ALESSANDRO ROLLA
Rolla: Duets for violin & viola Isabelle Faust (violin) Thomas Riebl (viola) [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] With this 2002 recording originally issued on the Swiss Pan Classics label, violinist Isabelle Faust and violist Thomas Riebl acquaint us with a composer of great distinction, Alessandro Rolla, who would have been otherwise completely forgotten if... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
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 |
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 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano & violin - Vol.2 Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "True spontaneity is elusive in the recording studio. Faust and Melnikov give the illusion, at least, that they are responding to and recreating the music on the spot. Roll on Vol 3." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2020 |