Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's expressive Violin Concerto

German violinist Isabelle Faust is a rare all-rounder: she switches effortlessly between Baroque music - played on gut strings - and the Romantic, modern and contemporary repertoire. She approaches everything with musicological knowledge, but ultimately relies on her fabulous technique and impeccable taste. Accordingly, the Volkskrant wrote with rave enthusiasm, "Isabelle Faust's violin playing makes the mouth drop open. From low whip to high whistle, no (...) trick is too difficult for her. Equally impressive is the cantabile, the art of making an instrument sing'.

Schumann's expressive Violin Concerto

Robert Schumann's expressive Violin Concerto is the last major work he completed before he died in an institution after a suicide attempt with severe depression. In the past, this Violin Conc erto was sometimes identified with that depression, people called it a "dark work. We now know better. Schumann's impetuous, romantic and highly expressive Violin Concerto has all the colors of the rainbow. And the slow movement is one of the most beautiful movements for violin and orchestra ever written.