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“ 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.”
-Berlin, April 2008 New York Times “A recital by Grigory Sokolov is like a vision of a lost age of Russian pianism.” -London, June 2007 The Guardian “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”. —Paris, November 2007 Le Figaro At the moment I do not see any other pianist in this class — Peter Lemken Berlin “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.” —International Piano, Sept. 2006 |
