Artist: Isabelle Faust, Kristian Bezuidenhout
Title: J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin &Harpsichord
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Duration: 01:27:25
Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 24bit/96kHz
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Source: https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8395387–bach-j-s-sonatas-for-violin-harpsichord-nos-1-6-bwv1014-1019

“Isabelle Faust has never cultivated the whale-boned red-carpet glamour that many female soloists feel obliged to pursue. On stage and off, the German violinist’s manner is relaxed, her style understated. She sports a gamine, Jeanne d’Arc crop and, save for the tell-tale violinist’s love-bite just below her jaw, you might guess her to be an architect or an academic. In a way, she is both, for an appreciation of musical structure and an interest in historical research are integral to her work.

The stillness of focus and purity of sound that has distinguished her playing can be heard in a repertoire stretching from Beethoven and Schubert through to Hartmann and Ligeti, on modern and period strings. Where other violinists dazzle, Faust is a thinker. On the subject of her own individual sound, she is hesitant: “Of course, I’m trying to be me in whatever repertoire I’m playing, and I do think that my work is different from that of other violinists — but actually I’m never really trying to keep to this idea of an individual sound. It’s always my goal to get a different interpretation and also a different kind of voice particular to the voice of the composer.” Anna Picard – The Guardian

The music should always wear its deft counterpoint lightly, wide-eyed as a spring day. In their new recording Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout understand this perfectly…However uplifting the individual contributions are throughout, that consummate sense of partnership prevails…a set that celebrates life from first note to last. – BBC Music Magazine, April 2018

Faust and Bezuidenhout played these sonatas a lot in concert before taking them into the studio and it shows — both in the detail and the trust that allows for real risk-taking…Can I find fault with this set? No, I cannot. It’s an eloquent and beautifully recorded homage to the composer and demands to be in the collection of all Bach lovers post-haste. – Gramophone Magazine, March 2018

These scrupulously prepared and researched accounts wear their intelligence lightly: vibrato and rubato are both applied with taste and discretion, but Faust is never afraid to let the music dance, and her synergy with Bezuidenhout (placed forward in the balance, to great effect) equals that with Alexander Melnikov on her recent recording of the Franck sonata. – Presto Classical, January 2018

Tracklist:

  1. Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: I. Adagio – 3:10
  2. Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: II. Allegro – 2:57
  3. Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: III. Andante – 2:50
  4. Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1014: IV. Allegro – 3:09
  5. Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: I. [Largo] – 2:58
  6. Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: II. Allegro – 2:56
  7. Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: III. Andante un poco – 2:43
  8. Sonata No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015: IV. Presto – 4:12
  9. Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: I. Adagio – 3:46
  10. Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: II. Allegro – 2:58
  11. Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non tanto – 4:11
  12. Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: IV. Allegro – 3:40
  13. Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: I. Largo – 4:01
  14. Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: II. Allegro – 4:47
  15. Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: III. Adagio – 2:43
  16. Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017: IV. Allegro – 4:44
  17. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: I. [Largo] – 6:23
  18. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: II. Allegro – 4:39
  19. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: III. Adagio – 2:23
  20. Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1018: IV. Vivace – 2:30
  21. Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: I. Allegro – 3:22
  22. Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: II. Largo – 1:32
  23. Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro – 4:37
  24. Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: IV. Adagio – 3:00
  25. Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019: V. Allegro – 3:23

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