Berg Violin Concerto Beethoven Violin Concerto

Product Description Violinist Isabelle Faust is featured on a disc of German violin concertos that marks the de?but recording for harmonia mundi by the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Review An account of the Berg that plumbs its depths of melancholy, setting off a radiant, life-affirming performance of the Beethoven... --Gramophone, Recording of the Month These performances of two landmark violin concertos demonstrate a remarkable meeting of interpretative minds, a way of imagining and conveying the music that is absolutely hand in glove... Berg s concerto... is handled exquisitely... Abbado establishes an atmosphere that can embrace delicate wisps of texture, poetic reverie, heartfelt intensity and the anguish that builds to a climax in the second movement. Faust s timbre and spectrum of emotion are similarly judged and communicated with arresting maturity and sensibility. Likewise, she echoes the freshness and depth that Abbado stimulates in the orchestral playing of the Beethoven concerto, finding a mode of expression that is both lyrical and dynamic and contributing to a performance of real stature. --The Daily Telegraph, CD of the Week Abbado and Faust give us light-fingered Beethoven: airy, colourful, muscular but never muscle-bound... The luminous sound of Abbado s orchestra, a continuing glory, infuses the concerto with a real sense of joy; I don t know of any other interpretation that wears such a smile so lightly. Faust is a wonder on this disc, but Abbado is even more so. --The Times