He also served up generous measures. Soloist Isabelle Faust (pictured below by Felix Broede) played the third of Mozart’s late-teenage concertos before the interval, and the first after it. Bookending ...

Violinist Isabelle Faust, violist Boris Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov honour Britten’s exuberant works with vigour and determination Isabelle Faust takes a rewarding dive into the violin music ...

The performance was given on period instruments, still more the exception than the rule for Beethoven chamber music. For the first half, the Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Melnikov played a fortepiano ...

Performed on original instruments, the composer’s neoclassical works – particularly his Violin Concerto, brilliantly played by Isabelle Faust, come into sharper focus It was through their recordings ...

If you could ask your great-grandparents, they would very likely tell you that Gounod’s Faust was the most popular opera ever written. It certainly seemed that way years ago at the Metropolitan Opera, ...

Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust – part opera, part cantata and all extravagance – is the composer’s adaptation of the best bits of the classic story to incorporate all of the musical tropes of the ...

It is not often that a production can be described as stronger on detail than over-arching concept, but that is the case with David McVicar’s 2004 version of Gounods Faust, revived here by Lee ...