Bach has become, increasingly, the pinnacle of the secular religious experience. On Sunday afternoon at the Phillips Collection, the luminous violinist Isabelle Faust offered a compact, 1¼ -hour chunk ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Berg concerto still deters many classical music buffs, but the tide is turning in its favour, not just because ...

The two Romantic compositions comprising Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s program “Isabelle Faust Performs Schumann’s Violin Concerto,” beginning Thursday at Benaroya Hall, are, in a way, the story of one ...

In his second season at the Minnesota Orchestra’s helm, Thomas Søndergård seems intent upon demonstrating that he’s just as adept with the micro as the macro. From his first visit in December 2021, ...

Violinist Isabelle Faust applies a light, even spectral tone to the famous melody of the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn's violin concerto. It's an approach that demands complete confidence, which ...

The heat deterred the audience, but those who did attend made up with their impressive enthusiasm, unusual even for the ever-engaged Wigmore regulars. The performance was given on period instruments, ...

This is the next instalment in Isabelle Faust’s Bach recording adventure that began nine years ago. Her recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas are still regarded as some of the finest out there. The ...

The program for the Seattle Symphony’s concerts next weekend runs the gamut from melting lyricism to cosmic drama. Replete with memorable tunes, backed by the magic of Mendelssohn’s airy scoring, the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Faust, one of the most unshowy of modern violinists, completes her survey of Bach’s six unaccompanied masterpieces ...

Bank Holiday weekend in Brighton ended in – what else? – heavy rain but also with one of the major musical events of this year’s just-opened Brighton Festival: the violinist Isabelle Faust traversing ...

A Vancouver Recital Society presentation. At the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and 27 How do you describe perfection? The words are there—brilliant, awesome, ...