Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'

Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Fedorova has been playing Chopin’s Fantaisie for years, and it shows; her excellent performance proves to be the disc’s high point. The pianist’s well-integrated tempo relationships between sections... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…

This is music that demands pianism of superlative quality, and here Yevgeny Sudbin miraculously combines the volcanic intensity of Vladimir Horowitz with the cat-and-mouse tonal reflexes of Mikhail... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

22-year old Russian Boris Giltburg is completely inside Musorgsky's multiple personalities… There are some riveting crystalline staccatos and accurate but always musical sudden accents for squabbling... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…Yuja Wang… has all the equipment to be one of the most exciting pianists of her generation. As well as a stunning technique she has a fabulous range of sonority and colour… the two Ligeti Etudes,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Many of us will have in our collections recordings of certain live piano recitals that have achieved legendary status...Yuja Wang’s Verbier debut should be placed alongside them. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…

The Scriabin is a powerful performance…[Rachmaninov] Petrova’s account is magnificently considered. She knows that pedaling is vital in this composer, and to be used sparingly, something immediately... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…