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Mozart - Violin Concertos
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Cat No: HMC902230/31
Barcode: 3149020223024
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 21st October 2016
Faust fields a delicate palette of colours, barely touching the strings at times, so airy is her playing. The freedoms she allows herself are well judged and matched by Il Giardino Armonico, conducted by Giovanni Antonini.
For Isabelle Faust’s recording of the five concertos, she teams up for the first time with the period instruments of Il Giardino Armonico. Giovanni Antonini is the nominal conductor but these wonderful performances have the air of chamber music, of close listening between soloist, band and director. Faust isn’t spotlit in the remarkably clear engineering but seems part of the ensemble, her sound growing out of the corporate entity to glitter, coax, snarl and soar as required... The world is not short of recordings of this music and, in true Gramophone fashion, it must be acknowledged that most listeners will have their favourites from the innumerable classic discs that have appeared over the decades. However, for period instruments, period sensibility and state-of-the-art engineering, you may find yourself hard-pressed to better this thought-provoking and eminently enjoyable cycle. 
there is a lightness of touch, jewel-like precision and, of course, Andreas Staier’s enterprising cadenzas … A very high-quality and enjoyable product overall – recommended.
Faust’s spirited tempi in the outer movements of K218 and K219 bring this music as vividly to life as any recording I know, and her sweet singing tone in the andantes and adagio give full expressive value. Lively accompaniments from the Italians.
Isabelle Faust’s remarkably smooth and sweet-toned playing … the ‘Turkish’ episode…is splendidly done, its snarling crescendos well-handled by Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, and the percussive bow-slapping of the double basses adding to the flavour. The cadenzas by Andreas Staier are stylish and inventive. 
Mozart was 19 when he wrote his violin concertos, a cocky teenage genius. The music is astoundingly elegant, but it also prances and preens, and I had wondered what Isabelle Faust – most refined and intellectually scrutinising of today’s violinists – would do with all that cheek and bravado. Turns out she makes it fly where it counts, and always on her own terms. ... Faust’s touch is light, finespun, pristine – often her bow hardly glosses the strings, but there’s proper robustness to balance in the chunky, sparky cadenzas. 
