Unsentimental, precise Bach concertos from Isabelle Faust

Unsentimental, precise Bach concertos from Isabelle Faust

‘Throughout, the playing is of the highest order’

Freya Parr

‘Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto’

JS Bach

Violin Concertos; Concerto for Two Violins; Trio Sonatas- in D minor, BWV 527; in C, BWV 529; Overture No. 2 in B minor; Sinfonias from Cantatas BWV 21, 174 & 182 Isabelle Faust (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe); Academie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernhard Forck Harmonia Mundi HMM 902335.36 143:48mins (2 discs)

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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