Isabelle Faust & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Isabelle Faust and her Stradivarius violin ‘Sleeping Beauty’ are regular guests in Budapest. The one-time student of Dénes Zsigmondy first came to Hungary some 25 years ago as a fresh winner of the Paganini competition, while last year she was guest of Concerto Budapest. Those who have heard her need not be told about her flexible yet powerful, natural violin technique, while anyone who hasn’t must – immediately! She performs Schumann’s rarely heard late masterpiece, the C major fantasy, and Bartók’s Violin Concerto (dedicated to his Stefi Geyer whom he loved), partnered by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Heinz Holliger who is a brilliant oboist and active as conductor and composer, too. The concert also features Holliger’s 2008 work for orchestra and chorus, the title of which is named after a recently discovered late Debussy work, which in turn references a line by Baudelaire: ‘On evenings lit by the glowing coal-fire’.