Brahms: Violin Concerto & String Sextet No. 2
I am hearing more and more from Isabelle Faust these days: Chamber music, videos, concerti…. Seems she’s really moving ahead with her art.
Here are the selections on this CD that will be issued on March 8, 2011:
Brahms:
- Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
- Isabelle Faust (violin)
- Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
- Sextet: Isabelle Faust, Julia-Maria Kretz (violins), Stefan Fehlandt, Pauline Sachse (violas) & Christoph Richter & Xenia Jankovic (cellos)
The year 2010 was a year of significant accomplishments for Isabelle Faust’s recording career: Diapason voted her CD of Bach Partitas and Sonatas a Diapason d’Or of the Year, while her complete set of the Beethoven Sonatas with Alexander Melnikov, received the Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Recording.
The Brahms concerto is performed by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra which was founded in 1997 by the players themselves and by Claudio Abbado. In 1998, at the age of 22, Daniel Harding became Principal Guest Conductor of the group; in 2003 he was named Music Director and he has served as Principal Conductor since 2008, conducting around a quarter of the orchestra’s projects each season.
Here are some press reviews for Isabelle Faust:
“a poetic player with an irresistibly warm sound, a tightly controlled vibrato and an athletic technique.”
……………………………BBC Music Magazine
“Her performance is wonderfully proportioned…never grandiose nor unnecessarily rhetorical, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra supplying perfectly scaled support…those who prefer [their Brahms] expressively searching and introspective should love it, with the bonus of the delicate and deft account of the Sextet.”
…………………………………………The Guardian, 24th February 2011
Here is an update on March 24, 2011:
Isabelle Faust awarded the Diapason d’Or
Isabelle Faust’s latest recording for Harmonia Mundi has been honoured with the Diapason d’Or. The recording, released in march 2011, pairs the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Harding with the Brahms Sextet Nr. 2 op. 36.
Brahms Violin Concerto + String Sextet no.2
Isabelle Faust awarded the Diapason d’Or
Isabelle Faust’s latest recording for Harmonia Mundi has been honoured with the Diapason d’Or. The recording, released in march 2011, pairs the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Harding with the Brahms Sextet Nr. 2 op. 36.
Here is Isabelle Faust in their preparation of Beethoven’s piano and violin sonatas:
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