Isabelle Faust

After the double album of the Violin and Harpsichord Sonatas with Kristian Bezuidenhout, a bestseller in 2018, here is the next installment in a Bach recording adventure that began nine years ago with a set of the Sonatas and Partitas now regarded as a benchmark. Isabelle Faust, Bernhard Forck and his partners at the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have patiently explored a multitude of other works by Bach: harpsichord concertos, trio sonatas for organ, instrumental movements from sacred cantatas etc. All are revealed here as direct or indirect relatives of the three monumental Concertos BWV 1041-43.

Le soldat en perdition. Stravinsky et Ramuz revisitent le mythe de Faust… à leur manière: en vendant au diable son violon en échange du livre qui devine le futur, le soldat perdra son âme. Dans ce spectacle musical du genre "mimodrame" créé aux dernières heures de la Première Guerre mondiale, le compositeur du Sacre explore avec les moyens du bord de nouveaux chemins qui le mèneront bientôt vers une forme très personnelle de néo-classicisme.

In this mimodrama inspired by a Russian tale, Stravinsky and Ramuz revisit the myth of Faust : by selling the devil his violin in exchange for the book that guesses the future, the soldier will lose his soul.

The five most brilliant concertos for violin, all penned before the age of 19! Mozart was not even 15 years old when he began composing violin concertos that would serve as a backdrop at Salzburg receptions. An insatiable drive for independence would however lead the young Konzertmeister to overtly challenge musical forms, innovate with genres, humour and frivolity, all of which can be heard in this delightful first collaboration between Isabelle Faust and the musicians of Il Giardino Armonico.

The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration . . . Ligeti’s music defies criteria and codes. This recording provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of the musical language of one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, from the early Concert Românesc to the later concertos for piano and violin, performed here by two fabulous virtuosi.

More than a century after the historic scandal of its premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, The Rite of Spring has established itself as one of the ‘musts’ of the modern orchestral repertory.

The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration . . . Ligeti’s music defies criteria and codes. This recording provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of the musical language of one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, from the early Concert Românesc to the later concertos for piano and violin, performed here by two fabulous virtuosi.

The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration . . .

The poetics of space and the art of time, high-precision mechanism, rhythmic exhilaration . . .