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 ...
Even so, the live experience was unforgettable and all about evanescence. From the silver-age dreams of late romanticism to the bronze doors of a post-World-War-One asylum, Faust and Melnikov conjured ...
Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov, regarded as one of the finest duos, will perform together at the Concert Hall of the Arts Center on February 4. This marks the duo’s first ...
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, ...
YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS: In the framework of the Yerevan 7th International Music Festival dedicated to the great Armenian composerAram Khachaturian’s 110th anniversary, the Armenian Philharmonic ...
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 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 ...
(6) Brandenburg Concertos Isabelle Faust, Violin Antoine Tamestit, Viol Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin It’s heartening that this, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin’s second recording of the ...
The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...