Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht

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The secret of her success lies in her ability to bring an immense amount of poetry and fantasy to the immensely complex solo part…As a result, the listener gets drawn into the drama of the musical... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: HMM902341
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 63 minutes

Record Review

29th February 2020

Record of the Week
Gramophone Awards

2020

Shortlisted - Concerto
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2020

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Work length34:59

$4.20

$5.25

$6.15

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding

I. Poco allegro

Track length13:21

$1.60

$2.00

$2.35

II. Andante graciozo

Track length9:10

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

III. Allegro

Track length12:28

$1.40

$1.75

$2.05

Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Work length28:06

$5.20

$6.50

$7.55

Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Christian Poltéra (cello), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Isabelle Faust (violin)

I. Sehr langsam

Track length6:10

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

II. Breiter

Track length5:59

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

III. Schwer betont

Track length2:17

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

IV. Sehr breit und langsam

Track length9:30

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

V. Sehr ruhig

Track length4:10

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

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Almost forty years separate Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night ) from the Violin Concerto – the former still influenced by the idiom of Brahms and Wagner, the latter deriving from the richness of that later period when Schoenberg managed to combine a multiplicity of approaches within his twelve-note system. Between post-Romantic twilight and ‘ classical ’ rigour, Isabelle Faust and her most faithful partners offer us an extraordinarily lively interpretation of some of the most remarkable pages in twentieth-century musical literature.

Reviews

July 2020

The secret of her success lies in her ability to bring an immense amount of poetry and fantasy to the immensely complex solo part…As a result, the listener gets drawn into the drama of the musical argument rather than becoming bogged down by the sheer density of Schoenberg’s writing. Another plus for the present recording is the superb contribution from Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, whose players bring the requisite emotional heft and textural transparency to the orchestral part.

Jul/Aug 2020

You will already know if you are open to hearing the Violin Concerto, and you are likely to own Verklärte Nacht already, but Faust has become a special, highly individual musician. If that intrigues you, this new release, which comes in impeccable recorded sound, is strongly recommended. Music is funny—it can be spellbinding as it envelops us in harrowing emotions we’d never want to experience in real life.

1st March 2020

The pairing underlines the composer’s extraordinary journey out of tonality, and Faust delivers the most beautifully played account — gritty, intense — with Harding. It’s not easy listening, but both musicians make a case for the concerto as one of the 20th century’s greatest.

27th February 2020

As in her exceptional 2012 account of the Berg concerto with Claudio Abbado, Faust brings a fabulous range of colour and expressive nuance to this music, and Daniel Harding matches her understanding in the way he teases out the wiry orchestral textures around her violin lines.

Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht

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