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Isabelle Faust

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Biography

Critically acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust was born in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, on March 19, 1972. Winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1993, she has demonstrated the breadth of her talents in recordings and concerts. Invited to the greatest festivals and concert halls, she won a Gramophone Award in 1997 for her Bartok Sonatas , then went on to record the great works of the repertoire: violin concertos by Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak, as well as those by contemporary composers, notably Janacek, Jolivet and Martinu. His two volumes of J. S. Bach Sonatas & Partitas , published in 2010 and 2012, have been acclaimed by the critics. After recording the complete Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano , Isabelle Faust reunited with her regular partner, pianist Alexander Melnikov, for a program devoted to Carl Maria von Weber, published in 2013. She then begins a trilogy devoted to Robert Schumann with the Violin Concerto (2015), followed by Mozart's Violin Concertos with Giovanni Antonini (2016), Mendelssohn with Pablo Heras-Casado (2017) and Bach with Bernhard Forck (2019). In 2021, Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov will be released, conducted by Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester. The same conductor leads Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (2021), while François-Xavier Roth and his ensemble Les Siècles accompany him in the Russian composer's Violin Concerto, in a volume to be released in 2023. Acclaimed by enthusiastic critics for each of her releases, Isabelle Faust continues to work extensively on her preferred catalogs, while at the same time extending her repertoire to include Locatelli, Britten and Telemann. In 2025, the latter is represented by a range of works including Violin Concertos, an Overture, a Suite and a Fantasy.
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  2.   Violin Concerto In D Major, BWV 1064R: II. Adagio
  3.   Violin Concerto In D Major, BWV 1064R: I. (Allegro)
  4.   Violin Concerto In G Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
  5.   Concerto for 2 Violins In D Minor, BWV 1043: III. Allegro featuring Helmuth Rilling
  6.   Violin Concerto In G Minor, BWV 1056: I. (Allegro)
  7.   Violin Concerto In D Minor, BWV 1052: II. Adagio
  8.   Violin Concerto In e Major, BWV 1042: III. Allegro Assai featuring Helmuth Rilling
  9.   Violin Concerto In D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro
  10.   Sinfonia In D Major, BWV 1045
  11.   Violin Concerto In e Major, BWV 1042: II. Adagio featuring Helmuth Rilling
  12.   Violin Concerto In e Major, BWV 1042: I. Allegro featuring Helmuth Rilling
  13.   Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R20: II. Andante featuring Isabelle Faust
  14.   Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61: III. Rondo (Allegro) featuring Jiří Bělohlávek
  15.   Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R20: I. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco featuring Isabelle Faust
  16.   Mendelssohn: Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R20: IV. Presto featuring Isabelle Faust
  17.   Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto featuring Jiří Bělohlávek
  18.   Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61: I. Allegro ma non troppo featuring Jiří Bělohlávek
  19.   Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: III. Finale vivace - Sehr Lebhaft featuring Alexander Melnikov
  20.   Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Adagio - Langsam featuring Alexander Melnikov
  21.   Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: I. Allegro - Nicht zu Schnell featuring Alexander Melnikov
  22.   II. Larghetto featuring Claudio Abbado
  23.   Encke: Echoes for Violin, Viola and Orchestra featuring Boris Faust

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