Programme
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Passacaglia and Fugue
Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major
Artists
About the concert
For Isabelle Faust only the art matters, not the trappings. She plays with aplomb, focus, deep feeling—that’s how the violinist enthrals the audience, particularly with Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto, which, seriously ill in 1967, he »squeezed out note by note, with difficulty«. Sharply reduced, introverted music that concentrates completely on the violin. Music that inquires into where we are going and why.