Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov

Impetuous, dramatic, mercurial - listeners have reached for many an adjective to describe Schumann’s two violin sonatas. Faust and Melnikov have spent many years exploring, performing and recording these fascinating works together, their approach combining the highest standards of historically-informed performance with compelling empathy and creative freedom.

They’ve paired them with Schumann’s Fantasiestücke (originally composed for piano and clarinet, but often performed, with the composer’s blessing, by piano and cello or violin), running the gamut from tenderness to elation in three short pieces, and Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 1. Brahms may quote from his own Regenlied (Rain Song), but his music is full of lyrical sunshine.








Produced by the Barbican.

Part of Artist in Residence: Isabelle Faust.

Barbican Classical Music Programme receives major support from Marcus Margulies and additional support In Memory of John Murray.





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