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Melnikov’s control of texture, colour and mood rivals even the grand master, Horowitz. Outstanding. — Classic FM Magazine
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Gramophone Magazine
July 2006
Editor's Choice
Melnikov’s control of texture, colour and mood rivals even the grand master, Horowitz. Outstanding.
2010
Writing with touching enthusiasm and insight, 33-year-old Alexander Melnikov is clearly lost in wonder over Scriabin's strange and evercontroversial genius. Referring to the composer's 'eclectic mixture of mysticism, theosophy and a hefty dose of megalomaniac ambition', he offers up a richly comprehensive recital ranging from Op 11 to Op 74 – from personal if Chopin-inspired beginnings to the dark, opalescent obsessions of his final years. And never for a moment would you doubt his nationality, his poetic empathy or his superb pianistic mastery.
July 2006
…33-year-old Alexander Melnikov… offers up a richly comprehensive recital… Scriabin's idiosyncrasy can rarely have sounded more natural, his music emerging as if new-minted, improvised, as it were, in the first white heat of inspiration. Whether whipping up a storm in the Second Sonata's tempest-tossed finale or contrasting a clipped, even severe way, with the Third Sonata's opening Dramatico with a truly glowing and interior sense of lyricism, he is ideally attuned to Scriabin's volatile imagination. ...while wholly individual, there is something of Martha Argerich's pace and nervous vitality, her flame-like brilliance, about these performances.
