Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall
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Composer: Franz LisztComposer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Performer: Arcadi Volodos
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-10-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- ?nigme, No. 2
- Caresse dans?e, No. 2
- Fragments in A flat major for piano, Op. posth.
- No. 1
- No. 2
- No. 3
- No. 4
- No. 5
- No. 6
- No. 7
- No. 8
- No. 9. Novelette
- No. 10. Pr?ludium
- No. 11. Marsch
- No. 12. Abendmusik
- No. 13. Scherzo
- No. 14. Geschwindmarsch
- Pr?lude, No. 2 in B major
Music reviews of Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall
Music Review: Totally Captivating Pianism
Rating: 5 Stars
There are loads of pianists nowadays who can impress with quick fingures and so called artistry, but in fact nothing much is happening artistically if you listen to their playing attentively. Argerich, Pollini, Sokolov, Kissin, Ashkenazy, Katsaris, immediately come to my mind.
And there are very few pianists whose playing seems to make time stand still, and you feel as if another universe is unfolding in front of you. Richter, Rubinstein, Horowitz in 60-70s, Leon Fleisher, Sofronitsky, H.Neuhaus, Pogorelich in early 80s.
Volodos belongs to the latter although he made his name first as a Titan of virtuoso performance, as the two liszt/Horowitz transciptions in this recital show. But rest of the recital consists of more inward-looking works by Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Schumann. Here Volodos' playing is totally spell-binding with his limitless variety of tonal colour and intricacy, even though it takes repeated listenings to fully appreciate his artistry. So if you expect only fireworks on this cd, you are bound to get disappointed as it includes only two works of that kind. But if you can appreciate the pianism of real depth and artistry. This is a very rewarding recital to treasure.
Description of Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall
The only applause not left edited out of this recording of Arcadi Volodos's Carnegie Hall debut recital--given on October?21, 1998--comes after his house-burning encore of Liszt's maniacally florid variations (? la Horowitz) on the famous Mendelssohn "Wedding March." But the volley of enthusiastic cheers and wallops that ensues is enough to register the charismatic spell this young Russian pianist must have cast over his audience. Only in his mid-20s, Volodos seems to channel a bygone era of the Russian variety of Romantic virtuosity in its dual aspect, from hyperathletic prowess to exquisitely poised lyrical refinement. The recital opens with dazzlingly calibrated fireworks for Liszt's 15th Hungarian Rhapsody ("after Vladimir Horowitz," with whom Volodos justifiably invites comparison--as he did on his spectacular debut album--for his sinewy, larger-than-life negotiation of its thunderous octave runs and tangle of skittering flourishes). A far different world is brought to life in the enigmatic, compressed motivic echoes of the Scriabin pieces. The multiply trilled outbursts of ecstatic transport in his Sonata No.?10 beckon and dissipate like voluptuous hallucinations. Volodos can master the kind of interior poetry--breathtaking in its simple eloquence--needed for the two Rachmaninoff ?tudes-tableaux. So too the aching, barely achieved tranquillity Schumann calls for in the most introspective of the "Bunte Bl?tter." Indeed, the variety of tonal color, warm legato, playful animation, and fully voiced harmonies Volodos brings out suggests the "varicolored leaves" of the collection's title. This is pianistic poetry that lingers long in the mind's ear, as it undoubtedly did for the lucky audience that night in Carnegie Hall. --Thomas MayGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( L ) > Liszt, Franz
- ( R ) > Rachmaninov, Sergei > All Works by Rachmaninov
- ( S ) > Schumann, Robert
- Scriabin, Alexander
- Forms & Genres > Etudes
- Preludes
- Sonatas > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Scriabin, Alexander
- Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Sonatas
- Instruments > Keyboard > General
- Classical - Historical Periods - Modern, 20th, & 21st Century - Composers - Scriabin, Alexander - General
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