Isabelle Faust Violinist

摘要

We record collectors first became aware of the violinist Isabelle Faust 23 years ago, when in its 'Nouveaux Interpretes' series Harmonia Mundi issued a coupling of Bartok Sonatas, where she was partnered by the Polish pianist Ewa Kupiec. I remember what was probably their London debut recital at that time. In 2003 they recorded a mixture of pieces by Janacek, Lutoslawski and Szymanowski. Isabelle Faust was born in Esslingen, near Stuttgart in Southern Germany, in March 1972. When she was only five her father decided he wanted to learn to play the violin, and he took his daughter along to lessons - where she soon outshone him. When she was 11 there was a family string quartet and they were coached by leading contemporaries.