Scriabin - Prelude, Op. 16 No. 1 in B major

How he relishes Chopin's influence...His performance of the Fourth Sonata ('towards a blue flame') is a marvel of clarity and musicianship...More generally, everything is given with a warmth... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012More…

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 starsMore…

Liquid tone and flexible frasing...acute sensitivity to Scriabin's often acrid harmonies and to the jumpy way his ideas develop...well equiped to convey both the faded regret of the earlier... — FanfareMore…