Extractions: Arcadi Volodos almost seems to belong to the Golden Age of the piano virtuoso. His programme on this occasion would certainly stretch all but the most leonine of keyboard interpreters: he seems to positively thrive on vast swathes of semi-quavers (or demi-semi-quavers, for that matter). In fact, this event was part of a major tour: Volodos has already given this programme in Athens, Lucerne and Bologna. In December he will repeat it in four German cities (Bamberg, Berlin, Wiesbaden and Aachen). The sheer stamina of the man is amazing. Using a chair rather than the more usual stool, Volodos breathes a quiet confidence as he approaches his instrument: you just know, before he even sits down, that you are in the safest of hands. Programming Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor to begin with was a stroke of genius. This piece (the composers own transcription of the slow movement of his String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18) requires exactly the qualities Volodos imbued it with. Here was playing of real integrity: the stately opening was richly toned and dignified. Volodos used a wide variety of tone-colour to shape the variations. He was not afraid to play drily (as in Variation 2). Only in the passionate third variation could the left hand have been even more sonorous.
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Volodos In Vienna ArkivMusic Volodos,Arcadi Release Date 01/26/2010 Label Sony Catalog 7568872 Spars Code n/a Composer Alexander Scriabin http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=391981&album_group=1
Reviews - Arcadi Volodos - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD Lullaby in a Storm (arr. Volodos) Arcadi Volodos (piano) Sony Classical 886975688722 CD 10/10 Liszt, Franz Vall e d'Obermann; Il penseroso; Saint Fran ois d'AssiseLa pr dication aux http://www.classicstoday.com/digest/pdigest.asp?perfidx=22863
Extractions: Volodos is simply one of the greatest pianists I have ever heard. The transcriptions on this CD are well worth your investment. I was fortunate to hear Volodos at Lincoln Center play the finger-bending Prokofiev 2nd piano concerto. I am a professionally trained pianist, and I have simply never heard a performance to equal it. I was convinced two or more people were playing. The emotional power was overwhelming. I wish he would record it. And the complete Transcendantal Etudes. Volodos strikes us with some incredible works here, friends. These are quite simply some of the most perfectly executed works upon the piano I have heard, and this is no light affair considering the depression-inducing difficulty of some of these behemoths of the piano (Horowitz transcription of the Hungarian Rhapsody sounds like it requires a virtuoso of the highest order to play well.) We're dealing with a pianistic genius who I'm sure will continue to astound us in the future. And what, he began studying at the age of sixteen!? I want him to record all the Transcendental Etudes, but who knows if that will ever occur. Check out his Rachmaninoff concerto as well, it's about as close to perfect as it gets.
Arcadi Volodos (Piano) - Short Biography Arcadi Volodos (Piano) Born February 24, 1972 Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia The Russian pianist, Arcadi Arkady Volodos (Russian Аркадий Володось, Arcadij http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Volodos-Arcadi.htm
Extractions: Sergei Rachmaninov Franz Liszt and his transcriptions of recordings by the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz . Thomas Frost, the producer of many of V. Horowitz 's recordings, and producer of Volodos' recordings for Sony Classical, has said that Volodos "has everything: imagination, colour, passion and a phenomenal technique to carry out his ideas." The first album featuring spectacular transcriptions "Piano Transcriptions", some written by Arcadi Volodos himself, was released in autumn 1997; accompanied as it was by the pianist's first live appearances, it caused an absolute sensation. The CD was awarded several prizes (i.e. Gramophon e Editor's Choice, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) and received outstanding reviews: "A young sorcerer" (F onoForum ); "Volodos certainly has what it takes to become a new Horowitz Der Spiegel Thanks to his sensational debut CD and much acclaimed recitals, Arcadi Volodos was soon afterwards invited to the leading international concert halls. Since then he has been working all over the world with many of the world's most renowned orchestras and conductors He has performed with such orchestras as the Berliner Philharmoniker New York Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ... Chicago Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra . Conductors with whom he has played include
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Arcadi Volodos | ArkivMusic Ravel, Maurice (1) RimskyKorsakov, Nikolai (1) Schubert, Franz (2) Schumann, Robert (2) Scriabin, Alexander (2) Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (3) Volodos, Arcadi (1) http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Arcadi-Volodos/Performer/39351-2
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