巴赫：无伴奏小提琴奏鸣曲与组曲

巴赫写给小提琴独奏的三首奏鸣曲和组曲，无疑是西方小提琴音乐的高峰。无论是在演奏或是作曲技巧，都设立了全新标准，几个世纪以来始终是屹立不摇。巴赫的二儿子卡尔∙菲利普∙艾曼纽曾说「这些作品代表父亲对弦乐器惯用手法的丰富知识，是第一手也是最重要的纪录。」自1997年于HM发首张专辑以来，佛斯特一直都是该厂牌的亮点演奏家，今年亦提名留声机年度最佳艺人。2012年初佛斯特与阿巴多合作，二度灌录贝多芬小提琴协奏曲造成极大回响。但是不少乐迷最期盼的仍旧是佛斯特何时能把先前录制的巴赫无伴奏小提琴奏鸣曲和组曲补完，BBC第三广播电台主持人，同时也是BBC音乐杂志乐评安德鲁∙麦奎格对佛斯特上一张无伴奏专辑的评论是「兼具穆洛娃的力道、伊布拉吉莫娃的亲近感、茱莉亚∙费雪的果敢以及拉克儿∙波洁的愉悦...唯一美中不足的就是只有收录当中三首，快点给我下集吧！」是的，经过两年的等待，第二集终于将在今年夏天引爆古典乐迷沸腾的心！
Two years after her disc of the D minor and E major Partitas and the C major Sonata, Isabelle Faust completes her set of Bach's works for solo violin with G minor and A minor Sonatas and the B minor Partita. As you would expect from this most immaculate and intelligent of today's violinists, the performances are very well prepared. In a sleeve note, Faust describes the works as presenting "an enormous mass of questions which seems to grow bigger with every attempt to answer them", so that any interpretation is, at best, a "snapshot" of a continuing process. Yet there is still a wonderful security and confidence about her approach, a flexibility in her phrasing, and a remarkable control of dynamic and colour. At times, the faster movements could be a bit more unbuttoned, a little less detached, but the quality of Faust's playing is never in doubt.
'Quite often her playing allows a generous measure of rhythmic freedom – as in the Second Partita's Sarabande, for example; at other times she's concerned to maintain a strong momentum. [ . . . ] In short: Isabelle Faust has a magnificent grasp of this music. Hear her if you can!' Gramophone Editor's Choice 2010 (Bach, Sonatas & Partitas vol.1, HMC 902059)