Brahms: Violin Concerto & String Sextet No. 2 (Isabelle Faust) (CD)

Ever since its release in 2011, this album has been one of the jewels of Isabelle Faust’s discography, with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra providing tremendous accompaniment in the concerto.

The coupling is a poignant reading of the delicate and highly personal Sextet no.2. Her performance is wonderfully proportioned...never grandiose nor unnecessarily rhetorical, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra supplying perfectly scaled support.

Tracklist

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Concerto op.77
in D major / Ré majeur / D-Dur
1 I. Allegro non troppo (Cadenza: Ferruccio Busoni)
2 II. Adagio
3 III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco più presto

Isabelle Faust, violin
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding

String Sextet no.2 op.36
in G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur
4 I. Allegro non troppo
5 II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
6 III. Poco adagio
7 IV. Poco allegro

Violins Isabelle Faust, Julia-Maria Kretz
Violas Stefan Fehlandt, Pauline Sachse
Cellos Christoph Richter, Xenia Jankovic