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The German violinist gives us plenty of Czech brio in Dvořák; conductor and orchestra display many good qualities but fail to thrill.

Giovanni Antonini leads Il Giardino Armonico through a sampler of Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, with a stellar Isabelle Faust leading the soloists.

Heaven on Earth from Edward Gardner and Isabelle Faust in the latest in the LPO's ‘Moments Remembered’ series at the Royal Festival Hall. 

Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico gather again for Mozart's complete Violin Concertos.

Brahms and Dvořák were colleagues, rivals and friends... and the Bamberg Symphony can lay claim to both. 

Rattle and a large-format LSO produce a Shostakovich 4 to remember, with exceptional sound quality from every musician.

Duncan Ward leads a varied programme from Bartók and Janáček to Chausson, closing with a benchmark performance of La Mer. 

Les Siècles make their Lucerne Festival debut with a slightly uneven Poppe-Ligeti programme, at the heart of which Isabelle Faust nevertheless shines

Three concertos and a symphony made for an unusual but generous programme, but Les Siècles illustrate that versatility can come with mixed blessings. 

Refined if sometimes raucous pleasures from Haydn and Mozart as the EBS continues its European tour. 

Something new, something seasoned and something always refreshing characterized the Seattle Symphony's latest program at Benaroya Hall.

Not all expectations were fulfilled in this concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Isabelle Faust made a strong case for Schumann's Violin Concerto, whereas Antonello Manacorda adopted a paint-stripping approach to both overture and symphony.

Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck’s Notturno is the rarity in an imaginative chamber recital dedicated to nocturnal music and transfiguration.   

While Herreweghe’s approach wasn’t always a successful one, when it was the results were marvelous – particularly in the Jupiter Symphony and Isabelle Faust’s take on the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

Peter Eötvös and the BBC Symphony Orchestra offer a new music and a clever programme for this lively Prom concert. 

A wonderful evening of unforced, smiling music-making from Bernard Haitink, Isabelle Faust and the London Symphony Orchestra. 

A memorable evening: LSO horns on tremendous form with Sir John Eliot Gardiner on the podium and Isabelle Faust in stellar performance.

As part of their swing through some of America’s top concert halls, Isabelle Faust joined Les Violons du Roy to bring Bach and Handel to Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The replication of the weekend’s triumph was cut short by a somewhat dimly executed Fourth Symphony, as violinist Faust stole the show. 

Guest conductor Bernard Labadie introduced Henri-Joseph Rigel’s music to Cleveland, as well as leading Mozart’s Symphony no. 40, K550.

A great programme of varied but accessible 20th-century music excites in spite of its imperfections; Faust gives a beautiful, introspective reading of the second Berg concerto.

The Italian brought two beautiful period instrument clarinets to Wigmore Hall for the perfect pairing of clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms. 

In an all-Mendelssohn programme, Pablo Heras-Casado led the orchestra in detailed and original interpretations, with a strong performance from soloist Isabelle Faust.

Conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and accompanying Isabelle Faust in Mozart's G major concerto, Bernard Haitink stresses classical proportions in two symphonies by Mozart and Schumann.

Isabelle Faust joined the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in finely honed performances of Bach violin concertos and a rarely performed version of an orchestral suite.

Isabelle Faust and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment find steely freshness in Mozart, with brooding intensity and accentuated twists and turns in Haydn and CPE Bach.

An outstanding concert, with impressive performers that love to play together and had lots of time to rehearse

The Tokyo Symphony gave the Japanese première of Shostakovich's Tenth in 1954, less than a year after its first performance in Leningrad. Jonathan Nott’s approach could scarcely have been more different. 

On the eve of the Musikfest Berlin, Isabelle Faust’s performance of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura was an extraordinary time capsule back to the work’s premiere in 1988.

Works by Robert Schumann, Salvatore Sciarrino and Franz Schubert showed the members of a dynamic configuration to be as finely tuned to one another as each was to their instrument.

Bach, Berg, and Shostakovich at Symphony Hall "The Breakfast Of Champions".

Following their hugely successful Beethoven and Brahms cycles, Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe returned with Schumann’s symphonies and concertos.

Seamless playing and magical moments from the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya in a youthful programme meant that a slight lack of flair and grit felt even more amiss.

From the very beginning, as Faust teased out the twisting opening theme, one could tell this was to be no ordinary Mendelssohn performance.

While Britain was still at the polls, birthday boys Brahms and Tchaikovsky slugged it out in friendly battle at the Barbican. 

  Iván Fischer has distinguished himself as a conductor with inimitable listening skills; he truly has an ear for which sounds should be coming from where and how the sounds of each member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra should be arranged in space. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra première the first of two late works by John Tavener this Proms season and Isabelle Faust excels in Bartók and Bach. 

Bernard Haitnik celebrates his 85th birthday with outstanding accounts of Berg and Beethoven in a moving evening at the Barbican. 

Faust and Melnikov's concert of Beethoven sonatas at Koerner Hall in Toronto swelled with passion tempered by gentleness.

Nelsons impresses in Brahms' Third Symphony with the CBSO, while Isabelle Faust's account of Britten's Violin Concerto may have been a work in progress rather than the finished item.

Even in a festival anchored around a handful of 20th-century composers touched by the presence of war – Benjamin Britten, Dmitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók, Witold Lutosławski – the program on Thursday night with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and their chief conductor, Marek Janowski, was especially haunted by the memory of atrocity. It was a night of tough music with little reprieve.

The night had a programme of three soloists, three pieces and three significant composers in music history – Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The concept of the concert was to display a span of music from the high Classical era to the early Romantic, where each of the composers overlap in style through three generations.