Grigory Sokolov’s poetic interpretations, which come to life with amazing intensity in his performances, arise from a profound knowledge of the works in his vast repertoire.
His recital programs span everything from transcriptions of medieval sacred polyphony and keyboard works by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau, Froberger and Bach to the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, as well as landmark 20th-century compositions by Prokofiev, Ravel, Skryabin, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
Mr. Sokolov is widely recognized among musicians as one of today’s greatest pianists, an artist universally admired for his visionary insight, spellbinding spontaneity and uncompromising devotion to music.
Here he is performing the music of Franz Schubert:
