6 HJERTER i POLITIKEN Der er klassiske hovedværker, og så er der kerneværkerne. De absolutte grundsten. Musikhistoriens svar på pyramiderne, Stonehenge og Taj Mahal.Det bliver ikke mere kerneagtigt og centralt end Bachs musik for soloinstrumenter, og er man violinist, er solosonaterne og de såkaldte partitaer - det vil sige suiter af stiliserede dansesatser - selve rygraden i repertoiret.......Hjerne og hjerte mødes med teknisk mesterskab i musikalske bud, der ikke findes overgået. Få kolleger kommer op på siden af dem. ........Denne gang er det sonaterne i g-mol og a-mol, der uden mindste kompromis eller mindelse om, hvor monumentalt vanskelig denne musik er, inviterer lytteren ind, og partitaen i h-mol har krøller, spændstighed og en surprice i næstsidste sats, og der er ikke et øjeblik undervejs, man ikke hører efter. ----POLITIKEN Isabelle Faust hit the Classical charts earlier this year with her mesmerising recording of Beethoven and Berg with Claudio Abbado. She followed up with some welcome live appearances here in the UK, which included the Brahms' concerto at the Barbican with frequent collaborators Jiri Belohlavek and the BBCSO. Isabelle's recordings have won prizes since her harmonia mundi debut in 1997 which earned her a Gramophone Young Artist Award. In 2010 her Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Alexander Melnikov also won. The afore-mentioned Beethoven-Berg has been awarded Gramophone Recording of the Month, Daily Telegraph Classical CD of the Week, Times CD of the Week, Classic FM Disc of the Week, Sunday Times CD of the Week, BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month and CD Review Disc of the Week. Now she returns to J.S. Bach for a second volume of what Andrew McGregor described in such glowing terms: "there's some of the best-judged ornamentation I've heard in repeated passages. The recording is utterly self-effacing, in just the right way, and my only complaint is that the job's half done...I'm impatient for the rest! Harmonia Mundi is the label, it's released this coming Monday, and the notes are excellent as well." CD Review, BBC Radio 3, 27 March 2010 Isabelle is shortlisted for the Gramophone Best Artist Award 2012. Her next concert in the UK is at the Wigmore Hall, October 29 with Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras. ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC902059 Bach - Sonatas and Partitas Vol. 1 Gramophone Editor's Choice "Faust is fast making her name as the Bach violinist of our time. Outstanding." Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 20/21 March 2010 "Faust's playing has elements of Mullova's power, Ibragimova's intimacy, Fischer's bravura, and Podger's delight in Bach's dances, and the recording is a peach, perfectly framing her musicianship. There's only one thing wrong with it: there are only three of the six suites here, the D minor and E major Partitas and the C major Sonata, and I'm impatient for volume two." Andrew McGregor, CD Review Disc of the Week, BBC Music, 24 June 2010