Volodos in Vienna part 4

Volodos in Vienna, a piano recital by Arcadi Volodos with pieces by Scriabin, Ravel, Schumann, Liszt, Bach Vivaldi, and Tchaikovsky. Performed live at the Großer Musikverein Wien. Gramophone magazine rated this performance in its CD version as the best instrumental recording of 2010. The Gramophone magazine review said:“You can keep your Lang Langs, your Yuja Wangs, your Evgeny ’d swap their collective virtuosity for one evening of Arcadi Volodos’s consummate pianism. To my mind, he has produced nothing finer on disc than this live recital, captured in Vienna last spring. When Sony first signed Volodos they must have thought they were getting another great virtuoso-in-the-making. People were quick to point out the parallels with Horowitz in the astonishing feats on Volodos’s first disc more than a decade ago, and who could forget his cheeky take on Mozart’s “Rondo alla turca“? It’s striking that Sony has hung on to him despite his reluctance
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