Chopin: Voyage, featuring Yulianna Avdeeva, was awarded Choc de Classica in their December/January double issue!
“One is struck by the sound that emerges from Yulianna Avdeeva’s playing. It is enhanced by a recording that establishes a compelling dialogue between the instrument, the room in which it was recorded, and the listener, who may be thousands of miles away.
This piano has a unique character, making it a translator of singular eloquence that becomes one with the music and the pianist. Intrigued, one looks at the album cover to discover that this Steinway, which looks indistinguishable from a – magnificent – new instrument, once belonged to Vladimir Horowitz and was used by Eugene Istomin to record Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1956 for CBS.“
