Scriabin - Prelude, Op. 51 No. 2 in A minor

Naxos has turned up trumps with the little-known Russian Evgeny Zarafiants. Rhythmically subtle (and continually supple), tonally expansive and dramatically wide-ranging, he plays this music... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Not since Gordon Fergus-Thompson’s outstanding Scriabin series for ASV has the other-worldly, deeply sensual aspects of this extraordinary music been brought so alluringly to life — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s a tribute both to Scriabin and his interpreter Daniel Pereira that we are not bored, despite the consistency of the compositional voice… the pleasure of this collection lies in how Scriabin... — International Piano, September 2020 More…

Incandescent, fleet-fingered historic performances from the mid-1950s, whose quicksilver emotional reflexes (generously pedalled) mirror exactly the music's neurotic restlessness and pulverising... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lane certainly knows how to tease out the music’s textural subtleties; his emotional commitment is undeniable, as is his grasp of the poetic/virtuosic dichotomy inherent in Scriabin’s music — BBC Music Magazine More…