Denis Matsuev — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2015-11-27
Concert review: Piano recital Denis Matsuev at Zurich Tonhalle, playing Tchaikovsky (Saisons, Méditation), Liszt (Mephisto Waltz No.1), Rachmaninoff (Piano Sonata No.2 op.36)
Liszt
Konstantin Scherbakov — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2015-03-24
… while for the past two decades the artist is mostly pictured with an earnest, maybe “Beehovenian” / titanic, somewhat closed facial expression, in the concert (which he presented with a mostly relaxed, yet controlled body language) his face hinted at a wealth of emotions — and his playing struck me as a prime example of the “big Russian Piano School” …
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…
Godowsky: 54 Studies on Chopin’s Etudes (Diary 2013-06-28)
Godowsky (1870 – 1938), The Complete Studies on Chopin’s Etudes — Carlo Grante (2000) / Marc-André Hamelin (1999)
Liszt: Etudes d’exécution transcendente, S.139
Liszt, Etudes d’exécution transcendente: comparing recordings with the following artists: György Cziffra (1958), Claudio Arrau (1977), Miroslav Kultyshev (2007)
Yulianna Avdeeva — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2011-09-26
(…) I’m not a professional concert reviewer — but unfortunately, this event went largely unnoticed by the media, and at least in the two newspapers I checked (the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and our local newspaper) the concert was not reviewed at all, so let me try giving at least some rudimentary, subjective comments on how I experienced the evening…