Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by the Daily Telegraph (UK) as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century.” In the midst of a seven year (and fourteen album) collaboration with BIS Records, his recordings have met with overwhelming critical acclaim. The International Record Review stated that Sudbin’s Rachmaninoff recording “confirms him as one of the most important pianistic talents of our time.” His release of works by Scriabin was chosen CD of the Year by London’s Daily Telegraph, CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine, and was awarded the MIDEM Classical Award for best solo instrument CD at Cannes. Sudbin has performed in many of the world’s finest venues, both in recital and with orchestra. His performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 1 at the BBC Proms was described by the Daily Telegraph as “sublime.” |
| Posted: May-23-2013 |
 Iowa Public Radio features Yevgeny Sudbin performing Beethoven's Third Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vanska. |
| Posted: Jun-11-2013 |
“Out of Haydn’s sixty-two keyboard sonatas, Yevgeny Sudbin picks some of the choicest morsels (47, 53, 60), true. But that’s not the reason why his recital is such a breath of fresh air. Haydn is the alpha and the omega of musical phrasing, his sonatas all gems, but in truth not all recitalists make that as obvious as Alfred Brendel did. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet now surveys Haydn successfully on Chandos, but it is Sudbin’s one-off among recent Haydn releases that sparkles the most. The Fantasia in C and Andante and Variations in F add to the mix, as does Sudbin’s free-wheeling arrangement of the finale of the ‘Lark’ Quartet. Named ‘Larking with Haydn’, it’s emblematic of the spirit of this desert-island disc.” — Listen Magazine
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| Posted: Jun-1-2013 |
 When Sergei Rachmaninov composed his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in 1934, it was after an almost complete seven-year silence – so complete that he was thought to have renounced composing. Nevertheless, the Rhapsody was finished in only seven weeks, with a speed that was possibly stimulated by Paganini’s theme itself; taken from the 24th Caprice for solo violin it had already been used by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Szymanowski and is ideal for variation. Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody consists of twenty-four continuous variations, of which the 18th has become so popular that it is often included separately in compilations of ‘classical favourites’. |
| Posted: Feb-28-2012 |
| Posted: Dec-5-2011 |