Isabelle Faust

Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (2018)

Isabelle Faust & Kristian Bezuidenhout - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 538 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | 01:27:35
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Few violinists can move between a modern instrument and a period one with such ease—not to mention with such an idiomatic approach to so many styles of music—as Isabelle Faust. Following her award-winning set of the Mozart violin concertos, the German is joined by the ever-stylish keyboard player Kristian Bezuidenhout for Bach’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord. Both instruments sound magnificent, and these two great players bring breathtaking invention and imagination to the six sonatas. The humanity and warmth of Bach’s music is extraordinary, especially when played with the passion and flair encountered here.
Isabelle Faust - Stravinsky: Histoire du soldat (version française), Élégie, Duo concertant (2021)

Isabelle Faust - Stravinsky: Histoire du soldat (version française), Élégie, Duo concertant (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 251 MB | Cover | 01:13:05 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 170 MB
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

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.

Isabelle Faust - Isabelle Faust plays Bach (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 2, 2023
Isabelle Faust - Isabelle Faust plays Bach (2022)

Isabelle Faust - Isabelle Faust plays Bach (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, booklet) - 2.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.02 GB
7:28:44 | Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

For the past several years, Isabelle Faust has been exploring Johann Sebastian Bach’s music for the violin. First came her recording of the solo Sonatas and Partitas, which earned widespread acclaim. It was followed by the sonatas for violin and harpsichord, violin concertos and transcriptions, and the Brandenburg Concertos - each reading marked by equal freshness, an unfailing sense of rediscovery, precision, and generosity. Isabelle Faust here regales us with a treasure that reveals a thrilling story.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust & Antoine Tamestit - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2021)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust & Antoine Tamestit - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 480 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 202 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:27:35
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

Johann Sebastian Bach and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin go back a long way together! This recording, made with the welcome participation of Isabelle Faust and Antoine Tamestit, follows the complete violin concertos (2019), which left a lasting impression. Returning regularly to the inexhaustible source of the Brandenburgs ever since a memorable first recording in the late 1990s, the Berlin musicians have achieved a sovereign mastery of what is not a single work, but six, which, under their fingers, are successive episodes of a piece of musical theatre in love with dance, transparent sound and freedom. An exhilarating experience!
Isabelle Faust, Magdalena Kožená, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Adámek: Follow Me & Where Are You? (2022)

Isabelle Faust, Magdalena Kožená, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle - Ondřej Adámek: Follow Me & Where Are You? (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 259 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:01
Classical, Vocal | Label: BR-Klassik

Born in Prague in 1979, the composer, conductor and chorus master Ondrej Adámek, who studied in his Czech hometown and in Paris, has already won numerous prestigious awards for his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic music. In his musical language, which also repeatedly incorporates elements of distant cultures, he creates unusual musical narratives. He seeks the authenticity of his interpretations by combining voices and movements, gestures and theatricality, phonetic and semantic aspects, and his own specially developed musical instruments.
Isabelle Faust - Solo: Matteis - Pisendel - Biber - Guillemain - Vilsmayr (2023)

Isabelle Faust - Solo: Matteis - Pisendel - Biber - Guillemain - Vilsmayr (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 247 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 125 Mb | 00:54:27
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

From Biber’s famous ‘Guardian Angel’ Passacaglia to Guillemain’s ‘Amusements’ and sonatas and fantasias by Matteis (father and son), Pisendel and Vilsmayr, Isabelle Faust offers us a panorama of European music for unaccompanied violin from the second half of the Baroque era. Dreamy or virtuosic, these pieces bear witness to the diversity of inspirations from Italy, France, England and the German-speaking countries - and to their marvellous intermingling echoes.
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov - Brahms: Violin Sonatas, Opp. 100 & 108; Schumann: Three Romances, Op.94 (2015)

Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonatas, Opp. 100 & 108; Robert Schumann: Three Romances, Op.94 (2015)
Isabelle Faust, violin; Alexander Melnikov, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 319 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902219 | Time: 01:17:49

A 19th-century ‘trio sonata’. Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov have already given us an acclaimed version Brahms’s First Violin Sonata, in 2007. They now complete the cycle with the other two sonatas of 1886 and 1888, and add a fascinating rarity dating from 35 years earlier: the ‘F-A-E’ Sonata, a collaborative effort by three composers in honour of the great violinist Joachim, who had to guess who had written which movement! He did so with ease, for the Scherzo is as eminently Brahmsian as the Intermezzo and Finale are Schumannesque. Alexander Melnikov will be contributing his take on a score his mother gave him that belonged to Sviatoslav Richter in September BBC Music Magazine.
Isabelle Faust, Ewa Kupiec, Florent Boffard  - Bartók: Violin Sonatas (2010)

Isabelle Faust, Ewa Kupiec, Florent Boffard - Bartók: Violin Sonatas (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 477 MB | 01:54:49
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi

Isabelle Faust plays Bartok like a wonder-struck explorer confronting new terrains. She wrestles triumphantly with the First Violin Sonata's knotty solo writing, reduces her tone to a whisper for the more mysterious passages, employs a wide range of tonal colours and trans forms the finale's opening bars into a fearless war dance. This is cerebral music with a heart of fire and will brook no interpretative compromises: you either take it on its own terms, or opt for something milder.
Isabelle Faust, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concertos (2016) 2CDs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concertos (2016) 2CDs
Isabelle Faust, violin; Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, direction

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 550 Mb | Artwork included | Time: 02:09:15
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902230.31

For her first collaboration with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, violinist Isabelle Faust performs the five Violin Concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, along with three shorter concertante works. This is an extraordinary set, for the historically informed performances, the polished sound of the group, the almost palpable presence of the players, which Harmonia Mundi has captured with superior engineering, and for the unrepressed joy in the music. Faust is the center of attention, naturally, and her refined and expressive playing immediately pulls the listener in. These are far from the most demanding concertos in the repertoire, so Faust is less concerned with technical execution than with conveying the pure feeling of the music, which is delightfully buoyant and uplifting. Under the direction of Giovanni Antonini, the group provides warm and sparkling accompaniment that gives Faust all the support she needs, but there's no doubt that she sets the emotional tone for these exquisite recordings. Highly recommended, especially for devotees of Classical style at its finest.
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov - Franz Schubert: Sonate D.574; Rondo Op.70; Fantasie D.934 (2006)

Franz Schubert: Sonate D.574; Rondo Op.70; Fantasie D.934 (2006)
Isabelle Faust, violin; Alexander Melnikov, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 225 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 70 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC90 1870 | Time: 00:57:46

In nearly every respect this is outstanding. The Rondo brillant and the Fantasie, both written for the virtuoso duo of Karl von Bocklet and Josef Slawik, can sound as if Schubert were striving for a brilliant, flashy style, foreign to his nature. Both are in places uncomfortable to play (when first published, the Fantasie’s violin part was simplified), but you would never guess this from Faust’s and Melnikov’s performance; they both nonchalantly toss off any problem passages as though child’s play. The Fantasie’s finale and the Rondo brillant are irresistibly lively and spirited, and this duo’s technical finesse extends to more poetic episodes – Melnikov’s tremolo at the start of the Fantasie shimmers delicately, while the filigree passagework in the last of the variations that form the Fantasie’s centrepiece have a delightful poise and sense of ease.