Browse: Instrumental, Piano Solos, Shchedrin (composer)

Bookended by Bach arrangements, this album of solo piano works explores musical connections through history. The overwhelming echo in the recording creates a shimmering effect, overriding some... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and it’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

Ukrainian violinist Graf Mourja follows up his fine disc of Stravinsky and Szymanowski for Harmonia Mundi with a foray into more eclectic territory. This selection brings together the wild and... — Catherine Nelson, The Strad, May 2004 More…

The aggressive, somewhat Stravinskyan Piano Sonata reflects an interesting attempt to break away from the restrictions of Soviet Realism, but many will find Shchedrin's laconic miniatures such... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…