He also served up generous measures. Soloist Isabelle Faust (pictured below by Felix Broede) played the third of Mozart’s late-teenage concertos before the interval, and the first after it. Bookending ...

Performed on original instruments, the composer’s neoclassical works – particularly his Violin Concerto, brilliantly played by Isabelle Faust, come into sharper focus It was through their recordings ...

Isabelle Faust and Antonello Manacorda did their best to make the case for Schumann’s problematic violin concerto, while Manacorda brought something fresh to familiar works Has political correctness ...

If you could ask your great-grandparents, they would very likely tell you that Gounod’s Faust was the most popular opera ever written. It certainly seemed that way years ago at the Metropolitan Opera, ...

Following on the heels of Gardiner's personable chat between works on Sunday about why the LSO violins, violas, wind and brass stand for Schumann (pictured below in 1850) – the proof has been in the ...

It is not often that a production can be described as stronger on detail than over-arching concept, but that is the case with David McVicar’s 2004 version of Gounods Faust, revived here by Lee ...

Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust – part opera, part cantata and all extravagance – is the composer’s adaptation of the best bits of the classic story to incorporate all of the musical tropes of the ...