“Her violin tone is passionate, daring and electrifying, yet at the same time disarmingly warm and pleasant,” said the critic of The New York Times referring to Isabelle Faust’s skills, and Budapest audiences can confirm all of this from personal experience since the German violinist and her Stradivarius (called Sleeping Beauty) are familiar acquaintances. This time, in partnership with Concerto Budapest, she performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, which the composer intended for legendary violinist of the time Joseph Joachim (although he never played the work /1879/ in public). The concert starts with Barber’s poignant Adagio, one of the best known and most borrowed works of the 20th century, and concludes with the Schubert symphony of “heavenly length”. “He who does not know this symphony knows as yet little of Schubert,” said Schumann of the ‘Great’ Symphony in C major (he was also one of the people who rediscovered the work), and ever since the posthumous world premiere in 1839 (the conductor of which was Mendelssohn), the public has concurred with this assessment of a work based on traditional elements yet still radically innovative.