Using period instruments, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov bring us more sonatas for keyboard with violin by Mozart in Volume two of this series.
The first volume of all the Mozart sonatas was widely praised: “The greater similarity of tone between Faust’s sparkling violin and Melnikov’s glittering forte piano results in a sound more akin to the jingling of small bells. It’s delicious” – Gramophone.
And The Strad wrote the following:
“In a world full of star violinists, all with technical facility and individual style, it’s rare to find one that everyone agrees is just brilliant. Isabelle Faust is that violinist”
Here are Faust and Melnikov in Beethoven’s Spring Sonata:
