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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The First Symphony allowed Shostakovich to graduate with honours from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the same time to go down in musical history. Prokofiev, who had studied there some time ...

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 ...

Here is an ultra-special disc. Sometimes an outstanding performance of a masterwork suggests a reassessment of the work is called for. This performance of Schumann's underrated and, indeed, sometimes ...

Isabell Faust takes a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time. This is the next instalment in a ...

Sleeping Beauty is coming to Nashville. I’m not talking about the Disney princess, but rather the priceless Stradivarius violin, on which Isabelle Faust will perform at Vanderbilt University’s Blair ...

Maurice Ravel famously said of his own Sonata for violin and piano that both instruments are “essentially incompatible”. But when German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov ...

Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was, of course, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the farewell of all farewells. But on a happier note, Rattle led a performance of Benjamin ...

Bartok composed his Sonata for Solo Violin at the end of his life and to a commission from Yehudi Menuhin, and lived just long enough to hear the premiere. Both men had initially feared its complex ...