Faust, Haitink / COE: Dvořák — Lucerne, 2016-09-04

Concert Review, Lucerne Festival / KKL Lucerne, 2016-09-04: Isabelle Faust & Bernard Haitink / Chamber Orchestra of Europe — Antonín Dvořák: Holoubek (The Wild Dove), op.110; Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53; Symphony No.7 in D minor, op.70

Schumann: Violin Concerto (Diary 2016-05-01)

Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor (WoO 1 [H/K WoO 23]), in the new recording with Isabelle Faust and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, compared to a recording with Christian Tetzlaff and Paavo Järvi / RSO Frankfurt

Brahms: Violin Sonata No.2 (Diary 2015-10-17)

Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, op.100, in 3 interpretations: Henryk Szeryng & Arthur Rubinstein (1960) / Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang (2013) / Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov (2015)

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke (Diary 2015-03-27)

Listening Diary — violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & Schnittke, played by the late Lydia Mordkovich (1944 – 2014). Cross-checking Shostakovich’s op.134 against Gringolts/Vonsattel, and Faust/Melnikov

Faust, Blendulf / ZKO — Zurich, 2015-02-03

… it was fascinating to observe how the violin remained audible, kept a clear presence even through minimal, light movements of the bow (…)
In the subsequent Larghetto, the soloist enchanted the audience with the most intimate, whispering tones, played almost sul ponticello, with minute, discreet movements of the bow, merely a hint, but always present, down to the softest ppp and below — one could almost sense the audience holding breath, totally captured by this playing.