Radio 3 Disc of the Week
Daily Telegraph Classical CDs of the Year
CD Review Best recordings from 2004
Top Choice, Building a Library, BBC Radio 3

“In the past two years appealing new recordings have been issued, although the most recent, with Isabelle Faust in a magnificent ensemble performance with Jiri Belohlávek and the Prague Philharmonia, is far the best.” - Jan Smaczny, The Gramophone Collection (Antonin Dvorák), Gramophone, November 2004

“Isabelle Faust’s exultant solo playing, magnificently matched by the orchestra, is hugely infectious; in short, a performance to treasure and one very close to the head of the field.” - Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine, December 2004

“playing that really engages with the music – quite apart from the sheer technical excitement on display...there’s no need for the engineers to spotlight Isabelle Faust artificially – she can more than hold her own, and the recorded balance is open and honest. The contribution from the Prague Philharmonia is alert and detailed, and, as you’d expect, Jiri Belohlávek knows exactly how the music should go, and makes sure that it does.” - Martin Cotton, CD Review, BBC Radio 3, 13 November 2004

“With her consistently beautiful tone and dead-centre intonation, Isabelle Faust matches her closest rivals... in panache, and arguably surpasses them in spontaneous imagination.” - Richard Wigmore, Classical CD of the Week, The Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2004

“[Faust] proves herself the equal of any of her colleagues where the spinning of a cantabile line is concerned…The highlight [Piano Trio] is the slow movement, where Faust and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras interweave phrases between themselves and the peerless Alexander Melnikov with an understanding of nuance, light and shade that is spellbinding.” - Richard Evans, The Strad, December 2004