Browse: Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14

With this disc, Freddy Kempf shoots straight into the top ten of Prokofiev interpreters...[He] keeps it all spruce and plays it relatively straight...The big Rachmaninov tune in the finale [of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

one of the top pianists of our time…[Melnikov’s interpretations] are in a class of their own…given perfect clarity of inner lines and a refusal to lose intellectual grip even on the most tornado-like... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is an abundance of fairy-tale characterisation in this first instalment of a promised complete survey of Prokofiev’s sonatas…And story-telling fantasy, conveyed with a seemingly infinite... — Gramophone Magazine, April 209 More…

It is rare to encounter this degree of instrumental mastery wed to musical depth and sensitivity in one so young. Brauss’s exhilarating Beethoven is so thoroughly integrated that each movement... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

Formidably played and well recorded, it will alert even the most seasoned listener to the conflicting elements of Prokofiev's always "difficult", prickly and volatile nature...[Raekallio] plays... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…