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JS Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV1004-6

Isabelle Faust (violin)

Awards:

Faust's account of the music is gently voiced and eloquently inflected. Her lightly articulated bowing, which eschews anything in the nature of aggressive declamation, is a constant pleasure...a...

JS Bach: Sonatas & Partitas BWV1004-6

Isabelle Faust (violin)

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Faust's account of the music is gently voiced and eloquently inflected. Her lightly articulated bowing, which eschews anything in the nature of aggressive declamation, is a constant pleasure...a...

About

Isabelle Faust has gone back to the original manuscript sources to offer us her version of a masterpiece of the violin repertoire. In Bach’s time, music for solo instruments was still little explored territory, and his sonatas, partitas and suites immediately established themselves as a benchmark, technically challenging and brimming with creativity. Isabelle’s previous recording was our best selling title over the Christmas period.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allemanda
Track length5:36
II. Corrente
Track length2:30
III. Sarabanda
Track length4:22
IV. Giga
Track length3:34
V. Ciaccona
Track length12:32
I. Adagio
Track length4:43
II. Fuga
Track length9:46
III. Largo
Track length2:54
IV. Allegro assai
Track length4:45
I. Preludio
Track length3:39
II. Loure
Track length3:39
III. Gavotte en Rondeau
Track length3:08
IV. Menuet I - V. Menuet II
Track length4:48
V. VI. Bourée
Track length1:18
VI. VII. Gigue
Track length1:34

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    June 2010
    Editor's Choice
  • Diapason d’Or de l’Année
    2010
    Winner - Violin

May 2010

Faust's account of the music is gently voiced and eloquently inflected. Her lightly articulated bowing, which eschews anything in the nature of aggressive declamation, is a constant pleasure...a poetic player with an irresistably warm sound, a tightly controlled vibrato and an athletic technique.

24th June 2010

[Faust's] sound is deliciously straight with little or no vibrato, and bowed with such sensitivity to Bach’s phrasing that you could almost kid yourself at times that she’s using a baroque bow. But a couple of features are especially telling: her instinct for ornamentation in the repeats, and the sense of cumulative musicianship

11th August 2012

Her thoughtful approach is well suited to such searching music, and while there have been warmer, more spontaneous and expressively charismatic performances, few can match Faust’s intellectual concentration, purity and poise.

June 2010

Quite often her playing allows a generous measure of rhythmic freedom...at other times she's concerned to maintain a strong momentum....In short, Faust has a magnificent grasp of this music. Hear her if you can!

27th June 2010

Isabelle Faust has made a special impression as a deep, thoughtful, unshowy player, and these qualities make her ideally suited to the great Bach solo works...her command of the big structures, especially the huge C major Fugue and D minor Chaconne, is superb.

16th April 2010

Faust finds her own distinct path, using minimal vibrato but deploying varieties of tonal colouring and proving plucky enough to add pliability to a phrase or to pause momentarily for expressive effect...[She] plays with exuberance, grace and, in the gavotte, minuets, bourrée and gigue, with polished élan.

10th April 2010

Her serious dedication soars from her Stradivarius, a dark-toned beauty but capable of much silver light in its higher reaches...Faust’s wonderfully focused playing pulls you right inside the music, and magically makes you imagine the harmonies that Bach only implies.

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