Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Isabelle Faust
Orchestra: Les Siècles
Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM902718
Release: 2023
Size: 689 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Apollo, 2nd tableau
01. II. Variation of Apollo (Apollo and the Three Muses)
Violin Concerto in D Major
02. I. Toccata
03. II. Aria I
04. III. Aria II
05. IV. Capriccio
Three Pieces for String Quartet
06. I.
07. II.
08. III.
09. Concertino for String Quartet
10. Pastorale for Violin, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet and Bassoon
11. Double Canon for String Quartet
Violinist Isabelle Faust’s relationship with the music of Stravinsky continues, with François-Xavier Roth and his period-instruments orchestra Les Siècles joining her in an album built around the chamber-inspired Violin Concerto. Isabelle Faust and François-Xavier Roth explore here extremely contrasting facets of Stravinsky’s output for violin. From the Concerto to the Pastorale, the composer plays with codes and colours, sketching extraordinarily vivid soundscapes. Once again, the musicians of Les Siècles have succeeded in rediscovering the works’ original dynamic by using period instruments – and that changes everything.