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 ...

Violinist Isabelle Faust, violist Boris Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov honour Britten’s exuberant works with vigour and determination Isabelle Faust takes a rewarding dive into the violin music ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the time of his death Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto was a relative rarity, whether in concerts or ...

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 ...

On Feb. 20, the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of their odder concerts of the season. Featuring guest conductor Alan T. Gilbert ’89 and solo violinist Isabelle Faust, the BSO performed Joseph ...

The program for the Seattle Symphony’s concerts next weekend runs the gamut from melting lyricism to cosmic drama. Replete with memorable tunes, backed by the magic of Mendelssohn’s airy scoring, 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 ...

Follow Me by Ondřej Adámek is a vivid work that upends traditional relationships, while exhilarating and faultless Beethoven symphonies bookend the concert The archetypal concerto, as refined and more ...

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, ...

Hot on the heels of the shortlisting of Rachel Podger’s ‘Tutta sola’ (Channel Classics, 1/23) in the Instrumental category of the Gramophone Awards, I initially feared that Isabelle Faust had missed ...

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 ...