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Brahms - Violin Concerto, Sextet | Harmonia Mundi HMC902075

Brahms - Violin Concerto, Sextet

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMC902075

Barcode: 0794881984428

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th February 2011

International Record Review Outstanding

Contents

Artists

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Julia-Maria Kretz (violin)
Stefan Fehlandt (viola)
Pauline Sachse (viola)
Christoph Richter (cello)
Xenia Jankovic (cello)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Daniel Harding

Works

Brahms, Johannes

String Sextet no.2 in G major, op.36
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77

Artists

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Julia-Maria Kretz (violin)
Stefan Fehlandt (viola)
Pauline Sachse (viola)
Christoph Richter (cello)
Xenia Jankovic (cello)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Daniel Harding

About

The booklet of Isabelle Faust’s new recording includes an essay written by her regarding the performing editions used and the significance of Joseph Joachim in the string works of Johannes Brahms, as seen from a performer’s point of view. Since Brahms composed from the perspective of a pianist, his exchange of ideas with Joachim, which in the case of the Violin Concerto lasted almost a year, was of decisive importance for the final form of the piece, one of the most difficult in the repertoire.

Isabelle uses the rarely played cadenza by Ferruccio Busoni, which dates from 1913. Brahms knew Busoni as a child prodigy and recommended the young pianist in a number of artistic circles: ‘What Schumann did for me, I will do for Busoni.’

In the case of his Sextet, however, the most perceptible influence is that of the doomed love affair between the composer and the soprano Agathe von Siebold. That Brahms was unable to overcome their separation with a light heart is clear from the monument to his lost romance in the lyrical second theme of the first movement: A-G-A-D/H-E proclaims the sequence of notes making up the motif.

Gramophone Magazine gave Isabelle Faust its Young Artist of the Year Award for her first recording of sonatas by Béla Bartók in 1997 [now reissued on hm gold with volume 2]. 2010 marked a new stage in her recording career: Diapason voted her CD of Bach Partitas and Sonatas a Diapason d’Or of the Year, while her complete set of the Beethoven Sonatas, with Alexander Melnikov, received the Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Recording.

Composed of around 40 musicians from 20 different nations, and independent of external sponsorship, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1997 by the players and Claudio Abbado. In 1998, at the age of 22, Daniel Harding became Principal Guest Conductor; in 2003 he was named Music Director and he has served as Principal Conductor since 2008, conducting around a quarter of the orchestra’s projects each season.

a poetic player with an irresistibly warm sound, a tightly controlled vibrato and an athletic technique." - BBC Music Magazine on Isabelle Faust

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