This fine Russian pianist presents a sequence of pieces which illustrate Scriabin’s progress from Chopin-influenced Romanticism to full-blown mysticism, asserting that this too has been her chosen course in life. But even without that ideological underpinning, it makes an unusually effective CD: her touch is genuinely poetic, and she works on a large tonal canvas, conjuring moods and atmospheres with compelling authority.
The Independent (UK)/ Michael Church / May 2008