It was only at the age of 16, when everyone around him predicted that he was too old to do so, that Arcadi Volodos devoted himself to seriously studying the piano. This late awakening helped stimulate him to tread his own course, moving away from the obligation to replicate the habitual models of the more rigid schools and not limiting himself to the lacklustre reproduction of formulas. “Each of us forms his own universe. Each of us accumulates, creates his own culture, extracts from his environment”, he said in an interview. His interpretive genius is described by The Guardian as going “from fiery passages to moments of sublime quietness”.

Arcadi Volodos Piano

Robert Schumann
Papillons, op. 2

Johannes Brahms
8 Klavierstücke, op. 76

Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959