Volodos; Arcadi

Volodos’ Schubert: Perfect To A Fault?

Jed Distler

You really cannot fault Volodos in Schubert’s big A major sonata. He channels his impeccable technique toward musical ends, where every phrase is perfectly arched,

Volodos’ Spirit-enriching, Standard-setting Brahms

Jed Distler

Arthur Rubinstein once described Brahms late period piano pieces as chamber music for a solo pianist. In the stunning hands of Arcadi Volodos, one might

VOLODOS IN VIENNA

Jed Distler

For the most part Arcadi Volodos’ recital from the Musikverein Wien on March 1, 2009 is about sensuality and tone painting, as aptly demonstrated by

Liszt: Piano works/Volodos SACD

Jed Distler

Most of Arcadi Volodos’ first all-Liszt outing for Sony concerns itself with the composer’s introspective, poetic, and mystical persona. The main exception occurs at the

Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninov: Piano works/Volodos

David Hurwitz

This very fine Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto will come as a surprise to those who view Arcadi Volodos merely as a barn-storming virtuoso with few

Schubert Volodos/Sony

Jed Distler

Take a supervirtuoso like Volodos, current king of the Romantic transcription hill, honcho of Horowitzisms, and knower of no keyboard difficulties, and give him two

Volodos Rach 3 C

David Hurwitz

Russian piano phenomenon Arcadi Volodos gave a lovely performance of this concerto a couple of seasons ago with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and I only wish