Isabelle Faust, violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord
Presented in association with Boston Early Music Festival

NEC's Jordan Hall
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In this must-hear recital for violin and keyboard lovers alike, renowned performers Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout illuminate the Baroque sonata as it comes vividly into focus.

As they move between Bach and the composers who shaped his world, Faust’s “clarity, gutsy depth, and technical brilliance” (San Francisco Classical Voice) reveals the violin’s growing expressive power, and Bezuidenhout, a Boston favorite, shines a light on the harpsichord’s evolution from accompaniment to conversational partner. Expect breathtaking virtuosity from both artists and the thrill of hearing ideas connect across generations.

Presented by Vivo Performing Arts 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

Program Details

Learn about the program for this event, which will run approximately 100 minutes with one intermission.

I. Adagio in B minor
II. Allegro in B minor
III. Andante in D Major
IV. Allegro in B minor

ca. 1720-1723

Program information to come.

I. Adagio in E Major
II. Allegro in E Major
III. Adagio ma non tanto in C-sharp minor
IV. Allegro in E Major

I. Largo
II. Presto
III. Imitatione del liuto
IV. Aria, grave
V. Finale

Fantasia in A minor, "Alia Fantasia"

from Two Fantasias for Violin Solo.

I. [Andante] in A Major
II. Allegro in A major
III. Andante un poco in F-sharp minor
IV. Presto in A major

I. 
II. Variatio
III. Aria e Varatio

From Eight Violin Sonatas (1681)

I. Allegro in G Major
II. Largo in E minor
III. Allegro (harpsichord solo) in E minor
IV. Adagio in B minor
V. Allegro in G Major

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