Isabelle Faust, violin

Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord

Presented in association with Boston Early Music Festival

“Somehow it helped rather than hindered that the two players have such apparently different musical personalities, with Bezuidenhout’s exuberance weaving itself into the luminous intensity of Faust’s sound and generating an exhilarating creative spontaneity between the two. ”

The Guardian

“[Faust's] sound has passion, it has bite and it electrifies, but it also has a disarming warmth and sweetness that allows the music’s hidden lyricism to become apparent.”

The New York Times

“Bezuidenhout can certainly create a compelling sound world, and knows how to disrupt it in an instant for dramatic effect—a harmony change, a kink in the temperament, or a dissonant leap in the melody. His attention to melodic detail is superb...Bezuidenhout confirmed that he’s just the right harpsichordist in an emergency—or just in case one should ever need a compellingly musical keyboardist with rock-solid technique.”

Boston Musical Intelligencer