“Taratushkin fills every single tone with life. Everything fits together in an organic and natural way … Brahms wrote his Paganini variations as exercise pieces for certain technical challenges, scales, thirds, sixths, octaves. In all this challenges Brahms went to the limits of performers capabilities. It seams that for Taratushkin this limits simply do not […]

“If you havent’ heard the young Russian artist living in Berlin, you really missed something. The pianist impressed the public straight away with a brilliance and intensity of his performance of Bartoks’ Suite “Out of Doors”. Different facets, either at the martial beginning of “With drums and pipes”, or later in the mysterious “Sounds of […]

What a relief from ‘the thunderers’ this pianist gave us with the charming choice of a blithe Schubert sonata, the one in A major D 664. The almost cloudless Allegro moderato was played with beguiling joy and innocence. The Andante could have been a little more heartfelt but then I am an unashamed sentimentalist. The […]