Yulianna Avdeeva — Piano Recital, Baden/CH, 2014-03-08

(…) Yulianna’s playing was excellent! She is very virtuosic and very expressive! Where the tempo permits, she is nearly as clear in the articulation as Steven Hough — but she is way more expressive; unlike Volodos, she follows the score; she is not overpowering the music like Volodos, but has more agility than her Russian colleague (and avoids his unnecessary additions, I should say), she is often almost as fast and eruptive as Cziffra in the virtuosic octave passages, but in general keeps her articulation under control…

Schumann: Liederkreis op.39, Dichterliebe op.48

Schumann: Liederkreis op.39, Dichterliebe op.48 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Fischer-Dieskau/Moore (Live, 1956), Fischer-Dieskau/Brendel (1986), Goerne/Schneider (1998), Terfel/Martineau (1999), Wunderlich/Giesen (1965), Bostridge/Drake (1997); notes about related recordings

Beethoven: Variations in E♭ major, op.35, «Eroica»

Beethoven, “Eroica”-Variations op.35, Comparing recordings with the following artists: Artur Schnabel (1938), Glenn Gould (1970), Svjatoslav Richter (1970), Emil Gilels (1980), Konstantin Scherbakov (1984), Alfred Brendel (1985), Olli Mustonen (1993), Ronald Brautigam (2010)

Romantic & Late Romantic Music (Diary 2012-07-30)

Schumann: Novelletten, op.21 — Richter; Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata Nr.1 in D, op.12 — Mørk/Thibaudet; Rachmaninoff: Vocalise from the 14 Songs, op.34 — Isserlis/Hough; Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19 — Mørk/Thibaudet, Isserlis/Hough; Franck: Violin or Cello Sonata in A — Spivakov/Bezrodnyi, Perlman/Argerich, Isserlis/Hough

Beethoven: 12 Variations in A major, WoO 71

Beethoven, 12 Variations on “Das Waldmädchen”, WoO 71 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Emil Gilels (1968), Vladimir Ashkenazy (2006), Olli Mustonen (1993), Ronald Brautigam (2010)