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<br>&nbsp; <p><img SRC="Sokolov.gif" height=527 width=400 alt="Grigory Sokolov"> </center> <p><br></td> <td WIDTH="40%"> At heart he s a colorist, an intimist, melancholic, with astonishing tonal nuances and an endless, much-trafficked variety of touches& the Preludes were the true revelation: profoundly original, magisterial, heartfelt. The audience sat through them in complete, rapt silence. Long lines breathed to an elastic rhythm. Preludes like the one in B flat minor galloped and raced. Those in F sharp and D flat produced moments of faraway, unearthly beauty. I can t at the moment recall anything like them. Here was a great artist. <br>  Berlin, April 2008 New York Times <br> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <br> A recital by Grigory Sokolov is like a vision of a lost age of Russian pianism. <br> London, June 2007 The Guardian <br> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <br> Piano cosmique . Car tout comme Glenn Gould, mais dans des esthétiques opposes, on peut dire:  Il y a Sokolov, et il y a les pianistes . <br> Paris, November 2007 Le Figaro <br> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <br>At the moment I do not see any other pianist in this class&nbsp; <br> Peter Lemken 1998 Berlin <br> <hr WIDTH="100%"> <br> Sokolov is for many the greatest pianist alive today. & Sokolov is a pianistic Dostoyevsky, his music-making vast in scope, visionary and revelatory, squeezing out every last drop of meaning. <br> International Piano, Sept. 2006</td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <!--SpyLOG--> <span id="spylog63804"></span><script type="text/javascript"> var spylog = { counter: 63804, image: 26, next: spylog }; document.write(unescape('%3Cscript src%3D"http' + (('https:' == document.location.protocol) ? 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