Isabelle Faust, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding - Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto & String Sextet No. 2

Klasyczna Muzyka Romantyczna / Violin Concertos
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Dwa arcydzieła jednego z trzech kompozytorów z wielkiej trójki określanej mianem "Trzy B". To Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven i Johannes Brahms wg. dyrygenta Hansa von Bülowa tworzą owe "Trzy B".
Isabelle Faust sięga po jeden z najsłynniejszych romantycznych koncertów, w jego rzadko wykonywanej kadencji Busoniego, a zarazem jeden z najtrudniejszych pod względem technicznym. Kompozycja, powstała w wyniku ścisłej współpracy Brahmsa ze skrzypkiem Josephem Joachimem, jest pięknym świadectwem przyjaźni – natomiast Sekstet op.36 powstał w trakcie romansu kompozytora z piękną Agatą von Siebold. To wykonanie arcydzieła młodego Brahmsa skrzy się wigorem i dbałością o szczegół.
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"Jej interpretacja ma wspaniałe proporcje… nigdy nie wpada w pompatyczny ton, nie jest też niepotrzebnie retoryczny, a Mahler Chamber Orchestra zapewnia doskonale wyskalowane wsparcie" The Guardian

"ogniste partie koncertu skrzypcowego są szczególnie udane, a epizody liryczne bardzo wzruszające. Dzięki sekcji smyczkowej liczącej zaledwie 32 osoby - Orkiestra Kameralna Mahlera osiąga niezwykły stopień przejrzystości, z wyraźnymi partiami instrumentów dętych. A Faust chętnie pozwala solistom orkiestry zająć centralne miejsce, jak wtedy, gdy pod koniec Adagia ustępuje miejsca obojowi..." Gramophone

Editor's info:
Ever since its release in 2011, this album has been one of the jewels of Isabelle Faust’s discography, with Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra providing tremendous accompaniment in the concerto. The coupling is a poignant reading of the delicate and highly personal Sextet no.2.

The Guardian
"Her performance is wonderfully proportioned...never grandiose nor unnecessarily rhetorical, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra supplying perfectly scaled support..."

The Guardian
This account of the Violin Concerto is noteworthy in several ways. Instead of the familiar Joachim cadenza in the first movement, Isabelle Faust plays one by Busoni, strikingly accompanied by timpani rolls and then by the orchestral strings, and powerfully integrated into the structure. With a string section of just 32, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra achieve an unusual degree of clarity, with the important wind parts prominent. And Faust is often happy to allow soloists from the orchestra to take centre stage, as when she gives way to the oboe towards the end of the Adagio.
She has also taken notice of Joachim’s metronome marks: in the first movement the initial speed is not unusual but it’s maintained through the movement in a way we don’t often hear: the start of the second solo, for instance (track 1, 9'42"), continues the orchestra’s forward movement, whereas Joshua Bell (Decca, 5/96) immediately holds back, as has become conventional. The Adagio’s opening paragraph has a happy, serenade-like atmosphere, and Faust is then able to make an effective point of the più sostenuto middle section. Elsewhere, the fiery parts of the concerto are particularly successful and the lyrical episodes very touching. By the side of Bell’s spontaneity, some listeners may find parts of the first movement too restrained, but in the finale she outdoes him in liveliness and gypsy character.
The same applies to the Sextet. There are places where the warm expressiveness of the Lindsays (ASV, 7/06) is missing but this performance offers near-perfect balance and integration of sound. I admire especially the powerful sense of line running through the Poco adagio variations and the way the melancholy Scherzo gives way so naturally to its rollicking Trio section.
by Duncan Druce

Classics Today
For the Brahms violin concerto Isabelle Faust has fashioned an interpretation based on her extensive study of the performance style and instructions of Joseph Joachim (Brahms’ collaborator and the work’s dedicatee). Her tempos are markedly faster than usual, lending the music a stirring energy and emotional directness. This extends to Faust’s taut phrasing and crisp rhythms and accents, delivered with a tone that can be thin (and nearly evaporates in pianissimo passages) but also successfully cuts through the orchestral texture when necessary.
Not that this is hard to do given the unfortunately-named Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s small-scaled, un-Brahmsian sound (I’ll grant that the hard stick timpani gives a certain edge to the finale’s dramatic passages, but that’s more Beethoven than Brahms). Conductor Daniel Harding gives pride of place to the woodwinds (the wind-band opening of the Adagio is exquisitely done) but keeps the brass on a tight leash, muzzling it whenever there is a climax (the trumpets sound positively timid at the dramatic recapitulation of the main theme). Then there’s Harding’s tiresomely clipped playing style that saws off note values at phrase endings. This is supposed to be Brahms the great romantic composer? Want more strangeness? Faust uses the rarely heard Busoni cadenza, whose pernicious timpani rolls give an entirely different character to the music, one that meanders between Berlioz and Nielsen.

The coupled String Sextet No. 2 is more readily recommendable. The collected players don’t produce the full, rich, and resonant sound of the Verdi Quartett on Hänssler, but their lighter touch and vigorous rendition reveals the youthful Brahms’ energy and ardor. The sound is clear and detailed for the Sextet, slightly less so for the concerto.
The verdict? Well, if you feel you’ve heard the Brahms violin concerto so many times that you go on auto-pilot, this recording will definitely snap your attention back to the music (but not always in a good way). However, if you just want to enjoy the piece for its own sake there are many fine alternatives, with Heifetz, Oistrakh, Mutter (Karajan), and Repin among the standouts.
by Victor Carr Jr

muzycy:
Isabelle Faust - Violin
Julia-Maria Kretz - Violin
Stefan Fehlandt - Viola
Pauline Sachse - Viola
Christoph Richter - Cello

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding - Conductor

utwory:
1. Brahms: Violin Concerto op.77 in D major / Ré majeur / D-Dur - I. Allegro non troppo (Cadenza: Ferruccio Busoni)
2. Brahms: Violin Concerto op.77 in D major / Ré majeur / D-Dur - II. Adagio
3. Brahms: Violin Concerto op.77 in D major / Ré majeur / D-Dur - III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace - Poco più presto
4. Brahms: String Sextet no.2 op.36 in G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur - I. Allegro non troppo
5. Brahms: String Sextet no.2 op.36 in G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur - II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
6. Brahms: String Sextet no.2 op.36 in G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur - III. Poco adagio
7. Brahms: String Sextet no.2 op.36 in G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur - IV. Poco allegro

wydano: 29th Mar 2024
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