Virtuosité, délicatesse et imagination : Arcadi Volodos à Bozar

By Patrice Lieberman, 26 November 2018

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“une véritable communion dans la beauté de la musique”

Reviewed at BOZAR: Main hall, Brussels on 21 November 2018

Works by Schubert

Works by Rachmaninov

Works by Scriabin

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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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.