Franz Liszt: Piano Works – Alexei Grynyuk

This is Ukraine-born Alexei Grynyuk’s first solo recording of the music of Franz Liszt, a composer that has been in Grynyuk’s repertoire since he first started winning piano competitions at the age of 6.

In Liszt’s bicentennial year Grynyuk performed the Sonata at a special concert in Kiev – alongside both of Liszt’s piano concertos.

Grynyuk is a first prize-winner at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition and the Shanghai International Piano Competition.

“…breathtaking musical accomplishment with musicianship of the highest order…” Musical Opinion

BBC Music Magazine Christmas Issue 2013

“Two features are paramount in this marvellous recital: a feeling for form, and some of the most sheerly beautiful piano tone I’ve heard in a long while…La campanella is not only breathtaking in its control but imbued with elegance and a huge sense of fun. – 5 out of 5 stars

Gramophone Magazine August 2013

“A programme of familiar Liszt made thrillingly unfamiliar. Expert Liszt Sonatas may be thick on the ground but few are more richly inclusive than this latest offering…in the First Mephisto Waltz, Grynyuk’s nonchalant, fine-spun brilliance somehow captures the music’s diablerie to a greater extent than a more overt sense of its darkness.