Browse: Scriabin - Poeme satanique for Piano, Op.36

His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

Ohlsson understands such obsessiveness as well as any pianist alive today, and what his performances occasionally lack in colour and variety they make up in effortless virtuosity and total musical... — The Guardian, 5th February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a fascinating sequence, as valuable for its musical comprehensiveness as for the opportunity it grants to hear just how differing tonal shades can alter the effect that this supreme colourist... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 More…

Tempestuous, almost orchestral accounts of Chopin’s best known Polonaises from a pianist with a strong affinity for this music. The closely recorded programme culminates with a sweeping Polonaise-Fantasie,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wang plays all this music with a special brilliance and refinement… she comes up with a performance of Vers la flamme that moves superbly from a brooding menace to a final apocalyptic blaze.... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…

Obsessive patterns, harmonies and intervals seem to spin in interstellar space… This is an invaluable issue and a formidable achievement finely recorded. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2008 More…