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... |
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 |
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 ] "By any standards this is chamber music playing of the highest class; the fact that it's performed on instruments of the period only makes it more satisfying." BBC Music Chamber Release of the Month Jan 2024 |
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... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works Isabelle Faust, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Jakub Hrůša [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Apr/2024 ] After Berg, Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky, Isabelle Faust now tackles Britten with Jakub Hrůša and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, revealing a little-known facet of the British composer. This concerto, highly personal in its language,... |
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... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Octet D.803 / Fünf Menuette mit sechs Trios D. 89 Isabelle Faust (Violin) with Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] In response to a commission from Count Troyer, who wanted a work closely modelled on Beethoven's famous Septet op.20, Schubert - despite his fervent admiration for the older composer - resolutely struck out on his own by delivering an . . . Octet.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7 "Archduke" Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine WINNER 2015 - Chamber GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Toccata e due canzoni / etc Isabelle Faust (violin) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) / Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] "This is a powerful and valuable Martinů anthology and one I would commend as an introduction to the composer." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
FAURE
Violin Sonatas / Romance op.28 / etc Isabelle Faust (violin) Florent Boffard (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "(This) receives from Faust and Boffard an exemplary flowing performance. Altogether an impressive disc." ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Aug 2002) |
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 |
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 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto Op. 77 / String Sextet n°2 Op.36 Isabelle Faust (violin) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "..nothing is taken for granted, everything has been thought through yet the whole performance sounds spontaneous and natural. An instant staff favourite here at Marbecks Classical." (Keith@marbecks) |
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... |
THIERRY LANCINO
Violin Concerto & Prelude and Death of Virgil Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestre national de France, Gerard Schwarz / Matteo de Monti (baritone) Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, Arturo Tamay [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Lancino writes of his Violin Concerto that his imagination was fired by 'the thought of a little piece of wood (in reality a 1704 Stradivarius), played by Isabelle Faust, confronting a gigantic machine (the full orchestra)'. |
Isabelle Faust : violin / Paul Meyer : clarinet / Petersen String Quartet
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus - Funabre [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Hartmann was one of the most important and independently-minded German composers of the 20th century. This recording embraces two of his most well-known works, which bridge the epochs of the Late Romantic and the Modern, as well as a premiere... |
MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra (1979) / Coptic Light (1985) Isabelle Faust (violin) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Peter Rundel (conductor) [ Col Legno / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] How does a solo violin relate to an orchestra? Feldman supplies a compelling answer in Violin and Orchestra, and operates the "orchestral pedal" in Coptic Light. |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BARTOK / MARTINU
Violin Concertos & Sonatas [2 CD set] Isabelle Faust (violin) with Alexander Melnikov & Ewa Kupiec (piano) / Prague Philharmonia [ Harmonia Mundi Initiales / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Isabelle Faust makes an intelligent, passionate debut as a major soloist in my book. These Beethoven readings have waked me from my dogmatic slumbers. A sensational album, I dare say." (AudAud.com on the Beethoven) |
KAGEL
Mauricio Kagel: Works for Flute Michael Faust (flute) & Paulo Álvares (piano) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä & Ensemble Contrasts/ Robert HP Platz & Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Arriving in Europe from Buenos Aires in 1957, Mauricio Kagel soon developed his own subversive and theatrical musical aesthetics. Performed here by the work's dedicatee, Das Konzert is his typically oblique response to writing a flute concerto,... |