Arcadi Volodos: un gran sabio del piano actual

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 05 June 2025

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“una paleta de colores que si fuera pintura sería una acuarela tan viva como ligera”

Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 4 June 2025

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 20 in A major, D.959

Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze, Op.6

Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 13 in A minor, S 244/13

Arcadi Volodos, Piano

A poet of the keyboard: Arcadi Volodos and the measure of an artist

Asher Rubenstein, 12th December

From Schubert and Schumann to Liszt, Arcadi Volodos makes a triumphant return to London's Barbican.

*****

Technical excellence but muted expressivity: Arcadi Volodos

David Karlin, 7th March

Armed with extraordinary precision, the Russian pianist brings as much elegance to his compatriots Rachmaninov and Scriabin as he does to Schubert.

***11

Volodos takes his listeners to the edge of the abyss

Alexander Hall, 14th December

Arcadi Volodos displays consummate artistry in Schubert's last piano sonata and two other keyboard pieces by Brahms.

*****

Full-bodied Brahms and Schubert from Arcadi Volodos

David Karlin, 1st February

Arcadi Volodos is a big man, and when he sits down to the piano, he produces a big sound. The extraordinary richness of timbre was obvious from the first notes of Brahms' 6 Klavierstücke, Op.118.

****1

Passion, individuality and extremes: Arcadi Volodos in recital

Nick Boston, 28th October

Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos held the audience's attention with live performance at its best, at times eccentric, yet totally captivating and always uplifting.

****1

Revelatory Brahms: The Gewandhaus Orchestra at the Barbican

Sam Wigglesworth, 23rd October

For anyone lucky enough to have witnessed the last Barbican residency from Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the striking, thoughtful and vivid accounts of Brahms they gave here should not be a surprise. In Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 2, however, orchestra outdid soloist.

****1

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.