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Bach has become, increasingly, the pinnacle of the secular religious experience. On Sunday afternoon at the Phillips Collection, the luminous violinist Isabelle Faust offered a compact, 1¼ -hour chunk ...

The two Romantic compositions comprising Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s program “Isabelle Faust Performs Schumann’s Violin Concerto,” beginning Thursday at Benaroya Hall, are, in a way, the story of one ...

In his second season at the Minnesota Orchestra’s helm, Thomas Søndergård seems intent upon demonstrating that he’s just as adept with the micro as the macro. From his first visit in December 2021, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the time of his death Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto was a relative rarity, whether in concerts or ...

The program for the Seattle Symphony’s concerts next weekend runs the gamut from melting lyricism to cosmic drama. Replete with memorable tunes, backed by the magic of Mendelssohn’s airy scoring, the ...

German violinist Isabelle Faust plays Vivaldi's set of concertos, L'Estro armonico, with the early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. The concert comes from the 25th edition of the Gstaad Sommets ...

The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...

Why we care: There is no shortage of great Bach solo violin sonata and partita recordings - those by Itzhak Perlman and Gidon Kremer are among the masterpieces - but this one by the German violinist ...

Even so, the live experience was unforgettable and all about evanescence. From the silver-age dreams of late romanticism to the bronze doors of a post-World-War-One asylum, Faust and Melnikov conjured ...