Scarlatti Album Reviews
THE GRAMOPHONE
MAY 2005 EDITOR'S CHOICE"Yevgeny Sudbin makes his solo debut on disc with performances of a superlative vitality and super-fine sensitivity... This is, arguably, among the finest, certainly most enjoyable of all Scarlatti recitals." — Bryce Morrison
PIANO
MARCH/APRIL 2005"Once in a blue moon a record appears by a hitherto unknown artist who seems destined to take his place among the elect. Every note dazzles, enchants, seduces or moves one… the bravura fizzles like the best champagne. Both musically and technically, this debut is on a par with those two greatest of Scarlatti pianists, Horowitz and Pletnev. As eloquent in the most poignant sonatas as he is brilliant in the showstoppers, Sudbin is already a master." FULL REVIEW (GRAPHIC FORMAT) — Daniel Steans
BBC RADIO 3 CD REVIEW
MARCH 12, 2005"What bowls me over most is his sheer musicality. It shines out of every bar, and his playing has a constant sense of delighted discovery. As debut albums go, they don’t get much better than this." — Harriet Smith
THE SUNDAY TIMES
MARCH 6, 2005"Sudbin is a player of remarkable fire and fineness. Sudbin lends such ardour to the part-writing that each one seems a living thing." — Paul Driver
THE GUARDIAN
MARCH 25, 2005"His playing has a wonderful fluency and easy style... A hugely promising beginning.” FULL REVIEW (GRAPHIC FORMAT) — Andrew Clements
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
APRIL 9, 2005 CD OF THE WEEK"Yevgeny Sudbin evokes a kaleidoscopic array of colours – He relishes the rumbustiousness and subversive wit of the fast numbers, and conjures wonderfully poetic sonorities…a dazzling debut recital." FULL REVIEW (GRAPHIC FORMAT) — Richard Wigmore
PIANIST
JUNE/JULY 2005 RECOMMENDED"...there is an unusually profound, spiritual wonder." — Leandro Ferraccioli
CLASSICSTODAY.COM
APRIL 2005 10/10 & DISC OF THE MONTH"This is absolutely great piano playing, and it's matched by one of the most beautiful keyboard recordings to come along in a quite a while. If you love Scarlatti – never mind the opportunity to make the acquaintance of a stellar young artist clearly capable of wonderful things – you simply must hear this." FULL REVIEW — David Hurwitz
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
MAY 2005"...the young Russian artist Yevgeny Sudbin impresses on every level. Sudbin has made a memorable debut moving and exhilarating in equal measure…" FULL REVIEW (GRAPHIC FORMAT) — Harriet Smith
INTERNATIONAL PIANO MAGAZINE
MARCH/APRIL 2005"Yevgeny Sudbin stands out among his generation as a young pianist with great sensitivity, imagination and unusual insight." — Chloe Cutts
FANFARE
JULY/AUGUST 2005"Every so often a talent comes along whose playing makes you sit up and take notice…the young Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin brings fiery reinterpretations of 18 of the sonatas that brings every one of them up, scintillating or searching, in entirely new light, and very beautifully played too..." — Martin Anderson
INTERNATIONAL PIANO
MARCH/APRIL 2005"...in terms of aristocratic poise he matches even Michelangeli. Sudbin grips the listener with an almost Petrovian magnetism. This is staggering playing, so spontaneously alive that one can scarcely belive it was taped in the studio. In the wrong hands a little Scarlatti can go a long way, but when played like this one can easily imagine sitting through all 555 sonatas." FULL REVIEW (GRAPHIC FORMAT) — Julian Haylock
CLASSICALSOURCE.COM
"Sudbin is as imaginative as the music he is playing…nothing is predictable and there are things of endless pleasure..." FULL REVIEW — Colin Anderson
MUSICWEB-INTERNATIONAL.COM
"Sudbin has all the technical polish and artistic inspiration to become one of the great keyboard artists of the 21st Century." FULL REVIEW — Don Satz