Isabelle Faust

Winner of the 1993 Paganini Competition in Genoa, German violinist Isabelle Faust (b. 1972) has demonstrated the breadth of her talents with a string of recordings and concerts. Invited to play at 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) and those of contemporary composers (Janacek, Jolivet, Martinu). His two volumes of J. S. Bach's Sonatas & Partitas in 2010 and 2012 have been hailed by the critics. After a complete set of Beethoven's Sonatas for violin and piano , Isabelle Faust reunited with pianist Alexander Melnikov for a program devoted to Carl Maria von Weber, published in 2013. She then began a recorded trilogy devoted to Robert Schumann with the Violin Concerto (2015).

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