Concerti Per Violino

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Product Description Violinist Isabelle Faust is featured on a disc of German violin concertos that marks the de?but recording for harmonia mundi by the ideal Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Review Coupling arguably the two greatest violin concertos of the 19th and 20th centuries might seem too much of a good thing, but in these outstandingly played and conducted versions, the pairing seems quite logical, even illuminating...[Faust's] collaboration with Abbado is inspired. Indeed, both find more beauty in this challenging score than most interpreters on disc...A glorious disc. --Hugh Canning, CD OF THE WEEK, Sunday Times, 26 February 2012 VIOLINIST Isabelle Faust has matured to the point where we should now regard her as one of the great artists of our time. You can chart her progress through her recordings of Bartok, Bach and Beethoven. Then last year, with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, she reached new heights of sophistication and refinement with one of the most beautiful recordings of Brahms's Violin Concerto I have heard. And now, with her new recording of the Violin Concertos by Berg and Beethoven, she advances again, this time with Claudio Abbado and his creamy Orchestra Mozart. The emotional depths Faust uncovers in the Berg are utterly moving and profound, with a strange kind of serenity in the "Bach Chorale" section, in parallel with the poignancy. The Beethoven, an astounding performance from all the forces, is quite simply life-affirming, with a breathtaking cadenza, freely adapted from Beethoven's own cadenza written for a reduced transcription of the concerto. Amazing. --Michael Tumelty, Sunday Herald, 26 February 2012 BBC RADIO 3 CD REVIEW BUILDING A LIBRARY CHOICE 'silky, poised searching playing ... that opening is so beguiling and unforced, with such a light touch but still so loaded with meaning. Faust s colour palate is huge and supple and the orchestra wraps around her with thrillingly engaged and detailed contributions ... fearless, grief-stricken and tender in turns, it is feminine and fresh voiced, which is right for a tribute to Manon Gropius, but it is also an intimate, powerful portrayal of the deepest loves and torments of Berg himself.' --Kate Molleson BBC Radio 3 CD Review, 31st October 2015 VIOLINIST Isabelle Faust has matured to the point where we should now regard her as one of the great artists of our time. You can chart her progress through her recordings of Bartok, Bach and Beethoven. Then last year, with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, she reached new heights of sophistication and refinement with one of the most beautiful recordings of Brahms's Violin Concerto I have heard. And now, with her new recording of the Violin Concertos by Berg and Beethoven, she advances again, this time with Claudio Abbado and his creamy Orchestra Mozart. The emotional depths Faust uncovers in the Berg are utterly moving and profound, with a strange kind of serenity in the "Bach Chorale" section, in parallel with the poignancy. The Beethoven, an astounding performance from all the forces, is quite simply life-affirming, with a breathtaking cadenza, freely adapted from Beethoven's own cadenza written for a reduced transcription of the concerto. Amazing. --Michael Tumelty, Sunday Herald, 26 February 2012 There s something extra- special about the way Isabelle Faust and Claudio Abbado bring a sense of tentative wonder and discovery to the opening of the Berg Violin Concerto. [An] illuminating performance. --MICHAEL DERVAN, Irish Times, 24 February 2012