"Isabelle Faust has never cultivated the whale-boned red-carpet
glamour that many female soloists feel obliged to pursue. On stage and
off, the German violinist's manner is relaxed, her style understated.
She sports a gamine, Jeanne d'Arc crop and, save for the tell-tale
violinist's love-bite just below her jaw, you might guess her to be an
architect or an academic. In a way, she is both, for an appreciation of
musical structure and an interest in historical research are integral to
her work.
The stillness of focus and purity of sound that has distinguished her
playing can be heard in a repertoire stretching from Beethoven and
Schubert through to Hartmann and Ligeti, on modern and period strings.
Where other violinists dazzle, Faust is a thinker. On the subject of her
own individual sound, she is hesitant: "Of course, I'm trying to be me
in whatever repertoire I'm playing, and I do think that my work is
different from that of other violinists – but actually I'm never really
trying to keep to this idea of an individual sound. It's always my goal
to get a different interpretation and also a different kind of voice
particular to the voice of the composer." (Anna Picard / The Guardian)
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