Arcadi Volodos réinventeur de Schubert et Chopin à la Philharmonie

Arcadi Volodos

By Alain Lompech, 15 May 2026

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“Les mains souples et charnues du pianiste sont le prolongement d'un imaginaire sonore et spirituel”

Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 12 May 2026

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 18 in G major, D.894

Chopin, Mazurka in B minor, Op.33 no.4

Chopin, Mazurka in E minor, Op.41 no.2

Chopin, Mazurka in F minor, Op.63 no.2

Chopin, Prélude in C sharp minor, Op.45

Chopin, Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor 'Funeral March', Op.35

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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Alain Lompech

Pendant trente ans, Alain Lompech, né en 1954, a été critique musical et journaliste au Monde de la musique puis au Monde, dont il a été chef des pages « Art et Spectacles » puis chef d'édition, tout en tenant la chronique « Jardins » du quotidien. Il a produit de nombreuses émissions sur France Musique, station dont il a été le directeur adjoint et chef des programmes, et où il est l'un des membres réguliers de « La Tribune des critiques de disques ». Il publie chaque mois des critiques de disques dans le mensuel Diapason. Alain Lompech a publié le premier volume des Grands pianistes du XXe siècle, chez Buchet-Chastel, et travaille à la rédaction du deuxième volume.