Gramophone Awards 2024
Shortlisted - Concerto

Presto Recording of the Week
12th April 2024

Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hrůša

Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15
Britten: Reveille
Britten: Suite Op. 6
Britten: Two Pieces for Violin, Viola and Piano (1929)

After Berg, Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky, Isabelle Faust now tackles Britten with Jakub Hrůša and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, revealing a little-known facet of the British composer. This concerto, highly personal in its language, combines drama with humour, seriousness with satire, in music of overwhelming emotional depth. The programme is completed by early chamber works.

"In the Concerto, Faust digs deep and her tone has a visceral immediacy that goes straight to the heart of the music. She is unafraid and unflinching, and vividly unleashes the passion in these pages with mesmeric power, symbiotically partnered by Jakub Hrůša." - Gramophone Magazine, May 2024