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2010
“Andrei Korobeinikov's recital of music taken from the Scriabin's middle and late periods, alternating light and darkness, exultation and desolation, will surely become a compulsory addition to all lovers of his neurotic and compulsive genius. At 22 this Russian pianist already ranks among his foremost interpreters. A graduate in law as well as music, won a glittering array of awards and is presently pursuing graduate studies at the Royal College of Music. Such largesse is reflected in playing of an unswerving musical honesty backed by a gargantuan technical command. His tempo for the Fourth Sonata's opening Andante may be exceptionally slow but it is sustained with rare poise and concentration; and if the following Prestissimovolando is less mercurial than from others it is once again totally convincing in its own ultra- Russian terms. Korobeinikov goes through the second of the Deux poèmes, Op 32, and the Fifth Sonata's final outburst in a blaze of elemental thunder and lightning. And his authority is no less unarguable in the Eighth Sonata's extra-territorial wanderings and in Vers la flamme where Scriabin's obsessive patterning receives its ultimate nemesis. Such playing, finely recorded and presented, makes further recordings by this phenomenally gifted young pianist a necessity rather than a probability.”
November 2008
“…playing of an unswerving musical honesty backed by a gargantuan technical command.”
27th June 2008
****
“Korobeinikov unleashes the sonatas' pent-up fury with such wonderfully unbuttoned directness that it is hard to complain. There are no half measures in his playing, the technique is formidable; it is a genuinely thrilling disc.”
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