Ten years after their acclaimed complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas, German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov burst into their latest collaboration – recording Mozart’s works for fortepiano and violin, on period instruments – with a crisply sparkling Allegro con spirito in the K.306 Sonata in D Major. In this first volume, Faust and Melnikov bring together two Sonatas completed in 1777 in Paris, K.304 and K.306, with the K.526 A Major Sonata composed in the midst of Don Giovanni in 1787.

Faust’s keen sound (on her ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Stradivarius), with some muscle in the low register, makes a brilliant counterpart to Melnikov’s glittering keyboard (a 1795 Anton Walter replica), playing very much...