JS Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: HMM90225657
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 87 minutes

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January 2018
Gramophone Magazine

March 2018

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13th January 2018

Recording of the Week
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Finalist 2018
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2018

Nominated - Chamber

Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 1 in B minor, BWV1014

Work length12:04

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. Adagio

Track length3:10

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II. Allegro

Track length2:56

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III. Andante

Track length2:50

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:08

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Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 2 in A major, BWV1015

Work length12:48

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. [Largo]

Track length2:58

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II. Allegro

Track length2:56

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III. Andante un poco

Track length2:42

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IV. Presto

Track length4:12

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Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 3 in E major, BWV1016

Work length14:33

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. Adagio

Track length3:45

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II. Allegro

Track length2:58

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III. Adagio ma non tanto

Track length4:10

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IV. Allegro

Track length3:40

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Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 4 in C minor, BWV1017

Work length16:15

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. Largo

Track length4:01

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II. Allegro

Track length4:47

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III. Adagio

Track length2:43

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IV. Allegro

Track length4:44

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Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 5 in F minor, BWV1018

Work length15:53

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. [Largo]

Track length6:23

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II. Allegro

Track length4:38

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III. Adagio

Track length2:22

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IV. Vivace

Track length2:30

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Bach, J S: Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord No. 6 in G major, BWV1019

Work length15:52

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Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord)

I. Allegro

Track length3:22

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II. Largo

Track length1:32

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III. Allegro

Track length4:37

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IV. Adagio

Track length2:59

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V. Allegro

Track length3:22

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"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

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April 2018

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.

March 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.

January 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.

25th January 2018

Typically probing and intelligent accounts of Bach’s Violin Sonatas.

JS Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord

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