The violinist Faust and pianist Melnikov performed the second leg of the Mozart sonata cycle on gut strings and fortepiano Michael Church Monday 9 … The Erard has a rich, woody depth of tone; play no louder... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, More… Release Date: 19th May 2017 Both of them are familiar with early music and are committed to historical performance practice. It took us a very long time to record these trios – they’re very difficult works in any case, but playing them on gut strings makes everything more so. Isabelle Faust exchanges the steel for gut strings to do justice to a work. Share. “The whole cycle of 10 sonatas is an astonishingly varied oeuvre. I heard her play with Melvyn Tan in 2001 and her recorded chamber music since about 2008 has often been with gut strings and period pianos

The Sleeping Beauty violin is in a good mood, the gut strings sounding balmy and holding the tuning well. Plus. Submitted by: root_admin. As the German violinist makes her Proms debut, she tells us why she loves playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 4 August 2009 - 12:51pm. Exciting! The instigators of the project, Isabelle Faust, Alexandre Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras, champion their cause with a force of conviction and a choice of instruments that restore the delicate transparency and subtlety of their textures. German violinist. The next release will be of the Piano Concerto and Piano Trio No. Melnikov uses a modern copy of a 1795 Walter fortepiano, and Faust a Stradivarius with gut strings. This release, the second in a series by fortepianist Alexander Melnikov and violinist Isabelle Faust, has an entirely distinctive profile. The early start was, for both the children, the basis for musical careers; Boris Faust has become a viola professional. A late-Romantic hybrid, the work blends elements of piano and string quintet styles and here regains a freshness which delicately illuminates, in the hands of Faust and Melnikov.

Shortly after that her brother also began to take lessons and when Isabelle was 11 the parents created a family string quartet for which several masterclasses were later organised with some of the leading string players of the time. Isabelle Faust's attempt on violin Everest comes after her award-winning recording, and her approach to this music remains hard to pin down. We soon agreed to play the pieces for this recording on a historical piano and stringed instruments with gut strings, using orchestral forces to match. Two like-minded people meet with the violinist Isabelle Faust and the conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Thanks to this, we expected our playing to be better balanced, better articulated, and more open-minded. 30. Isabelle Faust adds: ‘If you play alone on gut strings, you don’t necessarily have the immediate positive effects but you do have all the disadvantages. gut strings and an Erard piano from around 1885 help to create the welcome impression that we are in a Parisian salon, listening up close. Isabelle Faust. Isabelle Faust plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

Isabelle Faust Sonntag. Completed a year after the Symphony in B flat, and again written for Ysaÿe, the 'Concert' asserts its roots in the heritage of Rameau and Couperin, thus foreshadowing Debussy’s 'Hommage à Rameau' (1905) and Ravel’s 'Le Tombeau …