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Faces of classical music
2021-08-25 02:40:00
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, & Piano Quintet in E flat major | Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Isabelle Faust, Anne-Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyra, Alexander Melnikov (HD 1080p)
[…] and Robin Ticciati have likewise evolved. Isabelle Faust's artistic curiosity embraces all eras and forms of musical collaboration. As well as performing the major symphonic violin concertos, she also plays works such as Schubert's Octet on historical instruments, Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente with Anna Prohaska and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat with Dominique Horwitz. She is also committed to contemporary music and will give the premieres of works by Peter Eötvös, Brett Dean, Ondřej Adámek and Oscar Strasnoy over the coming seasons. Her recordings have been unanimously praised by critics, as well as being awarded the Diapason d'Or, the Gramophone Award, the Choc de l'année du Monde de la Musique and various other prizes. Her most recent recordings include Bach's violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado. In 2018 a recording of Bach's […]
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Faces of classical music
2021-08-22 07:41:00
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 – Isabelle Faust (HD 1080p)
[…] of the great symphonic violin concertos, she also performs works such as György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments with the soprano Anna Prohaska, and Schubert’s Octet on historical instruments. She is a proponent of new music and has given world premieres of works by, among others, Olivier Messiaen, Werner Egk, and Jörg Widmann. She will premiere several new works for violin and orchestra during the upcoming seasons, including concerti by the composers Ondrej Adamek, Marco Stroppa, Oscar Strasnoy and Beat Furrer. Isabelle Faust is also an avid recitalist and chamber musician and has performed in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Bonn, Bratislava, Brussels, Zürich, Milan, Tokyo, London, and Osaka and locations in the United States and Israel. Among her recital partners have been Clemens Hagen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Bruno Canino, Steven Isserlis, Bruno Giuranna, Boris Pergamenschikov, and Joseph Silverstein. One of her regular partners – both in performance and in recordings – is […]
2020-01-16 15:00:35
Tharaud/ Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin/ Frankfurt RSO/ Ceccherini/ Les Violons du Roy/Lussier (Erato)Alexandre Tharaud performs three new piano concertos, of varying quality, but each with his characteristic tonal variety and clarity Alexandre Tharaud’s repertoire ranges across the piano literature, from Couperin to the present day, including brand new pieces. Three of the piano concertos he has introduced in the last seven years are brought together here. The three works are very different from each other, but all showcase the fleet brilliance, tonal variety and clarity of Tharaud’s playing.
2018-06-11 05:17:00
Schubert: Oktett (CD review)
[…] more lively and spontaneous, but by the last movements Mr. Faust and her company appear almost equally felicitous. Sonically, the earlier disc is a bit more transparent, but certainly the warmer acoustic of the Harmonia Mundi disc flatters the music in its own way. To accompany the Octet Ms. Faust and her friends offer two of Schubert's Five Minuets D.89, from 1813, arranged for octet by Ms. Faust's friend, the composer, conductor, and pianist Oscar Strasnoy. These are hardly trifling pieces, and the present group help them attain what one might call at least a measure of apt nobility. Artistic Director Martin Sauer and engineer Tobias Lehmann of Teldex Studio Berlin recorded the music at Mediapole Saint-Cesaire, Arles, France in July 2017. The sound, as I mentioned above, displays a warm, ambient glow that nicely complements the warmth of Schubert's music. It's a tad close for my liking but captures […]
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