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His stunning virtuosity and the sensitive interaction with the conductor and orchestra really does the talking. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 More…

The young Australian pianist is the most persuasive of advocates for Medtner's neglected First Concerto, his bright timbre and judicious use of rubato keeping the lush Romanticism of the first... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, August 2017 More…

For Dmitri Alexeev the First Concerto is Medtner's masterpiece, an argument he sustains in a performance of superb eloquence and discretion.
Even the sort of gestures later vulgarised and traduced... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Naxos completes its Medtner concerto cycle with Scherbakov. To have such Romantic richness – once the province of specialists – offered on a bargain label is cause for celebration in itself;... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…