Piano International (Jan, 2012)
In his booklet essay for this, his eighth release for BIS in less than seven years, Yevgeny Sudbin observes that, in Chopin, ‘The notes as they stand have such an incredible power that imposing yourself can often diminish the piece’s expressive impact.’ In fact, some of this disc leaves me wishing he had got in the way of the score a little more.
The first part of the Fantasy in F minor, Op 49 – that dark, slightly uncertain march – is taken too much at note value. It surely needs a storyteller’s imagination – and in the march’s melodic continuation, the accompaniment’s tread tends towards the prosaic. But Sudbin seizes …








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