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		A recital by Grigory Sokolov is like a vision of a lost age of Russian pianism.
		Piano cosmique. Car tout comme Glenn Gould, mais dans des esthétiques opposes, on peut dire: Il y a Sokolov, et il y a les pianistes.
		Sokolov is for many the greatest pianist alive today. & Sokolov is a pianistic Dostoyevsky, his music-making vast in scope, visionary and revelatory, squeezing out every last drop of meaning.
	www.rogev.com /sokolov (260 words)

	Grigory Sokolov (Piano) - Short Biography
		Grigory Sokolov was largely unknown in the West, however, until the late 1980's, but is now rightfully regarded as a giant of the piano.
		Grigory Sokolov is a regular guest of the most prestigious concert halls and festivals of Europe.
		Grigory Sokolov prefers his CD's to be recorded live is not surprising, since he likes to capture the sacred moments of a real, live concert and avoid the sterile atmosphere of a studio.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Sokolov-Grigory.htm (790 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Grigory Sokolov :: Classical Music
		None of Sokolov’s deviations from the ‘norm’ were affectation, but the result of a private communion with the composer, the audience a most welcome onlooker.
		The two Scriabin sonatas that Sokolov played ideally complemented each other (from opposite poles of the composer’s career) and Sokolov once again proved himself to be ideally attuned to the ebb and flow of the music and the ‘modernism’ of the Tenth.
		Of the latter, Sokolov was scintillating in the Fantasia Impromptu in C sharp minor — it was as if the piece was cast in a single breath, with seamless transitions from the agitated opening into the lyrical outpouring of the middle section.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=4588 (353 words)

	BACH Art of Fugue. Partita No.2. Sokolov (Opus 111) - INKPOT
		Though Sokolov's performing style has many things in common with other Russian pianists - strong passagework, impeccable finger work and an array of tone colors that is literally off the scale - it is his musicality and imagination that put him in a class by himself.
		Sokolov opens Contrapunctus 1 with a hushed intensity of expectation, yet quickly gives each line not only its own color, but often its own phrasing and rhythm, as though four different individuals are playing the same music.
		Sokolov is not afraid to use the resources of a concert grand to illustrate his points, but does so judiciously.
	inkpot.com /classical/bachartsoko.html (1053 words)

	AMC Artists Management Company \| Artists \| GRIGORY SOKOLOV \| Biography
		In the 40 years since the 16-year-old Grigory Sokolov was awarded first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1966, the world has been blessed with what one American critic recently called "a kind of pianism, musicianship and artistry one thought had vanished forever".
		Whatever Grigory Sokolov performs, be it a Pavane of William Byrd, a Bach Fantasia, Chopin Mazurka or a Prelude of Ravel, it suddenly sounds completely new.
		The most recent publication is a DVD directed by Bruno Monsaingeon filming a recital of Grigory Sokolov at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris.
	www.amcmusic.com /eng/biografia.php?aId=1 (436 words)

	Grigory Sokolov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grigory Sokolov (born April 18, 1950) is a Russian pianist.
		Sokolov's concerts are anticipated with eagerness where ever he travels.
		His programmes change twice a year, Sokolov mining the music he plays for every jewel before he feels ready to consider a new work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grigory_Sokolov (389 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Examples include Sokolov's overly detached phrasing of Contrapunctus 2's dotted rhythms, or how he picks up tempo at the outset of Contrapunctus 4 when the fugue subject is answered.
		Sokolov's grim, militant deliberation in the ricercare-like mirror fugues (Contrapuncti 12a and 12b) contrasts to the lightness and wit he brings to the more lively pair within Contrapunctus 13 and the canon at the octave.
		As for the C minor Partita, Sokolov's accomplished pianism is often too burly and blunt to convey the music's origins in dance (as in his heavy-handed Rondeau).
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5189 (351 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ Arts Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sokolov has been hailed as one of the world's most accomplished pianists today.
		Sokolov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1950.
		Grigory Sokolov performs at Finney Chapel on Tuesday, March 17 at 8 p.m.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1998.03.13/arts/sokolov.html (348 words)

	Intermezzo: Grigory Sokolov
		There was a full turnout for this rare Sokolov appearance, and his tardiness in emerging on to the platform just amplified the already buzzing levels of anticipation in the Wigmore Hall.
		Sokolov trotted briskly on to the stage, sat straight down and plunged right into the Schubert without even appearing to notice the audience, let alone acknowledge them.
		This second half gave Sokolov even more scope to demonstrate his total technical mastery over his instrument, coaxing the most extraordinary variety of sounds from it to weave Skryabin's filigree arpeggiated and trilled textures together.
	intermezzo.typepad.com /intermezzo/grigory_sokolov/index.html (733 words)

	Digital Deals - The Internet Source For BARGAINS - Amazon Store - Grigory Sokolov: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms [Box ...
		Grigory Sokolov is definitely one of the most underrated pianist for the past few decades, and I truly believe he is the best still around.
		One of the best-kept secrets in the piano world is the amazing Grigory Sokolov, a man in his fifties who won the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1966 at the age of sixteen.
		Sokolov, like Michelangeli (to whom he has been compared), does not play many of the Beethoven sonatas, but the ones he plays are his utterly.
	www.digitaldeals.net /amazon-buy-B000ALCFZ2.html (895 words)

	Grigory Sokolov: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms [Box Set] \| SONY BMG Music Entertainment Store
		Grigory Sokolov is definitely one of the most underrated pianist for the past few decades, and I truly believe he is the best still around.
		One of the best-kept secrets in the piano world is the amazing Grigory Sokolov, a man in his fifties who won the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1966 at the age of sixteen.
		Sokolov, like Michelangeli (to whom he has been compared), does not play many of the Beethoven sonatas, but the ones he plays are his utterly.
	shop.myplay.com /Grigory-Sokolov-Bach-Beethoven-Chopin-Brahms/A/B000ALCFZ2.htm (1122 words)

	Guardian \| Grigory Sokolov
		Bach and Beethoven made up this recital, too, but the rather nonchalant way in which Sokolov began by dispatching the ornaments in Bach's E minor Partita suggested that perhaps he has presented such a programme just once too often.
		The neat clarity of his technique was always evident, but it wasn't until the partita's final fugue that the performance really snapped into focus, with a musical energy concentrated in each phrase.
		Sokolov was at his most impressive in the opening movement of the C minor Op Three, in which everything was rhetorically controlled and technically impeccable.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4838561-108884,00.html (203 words)

	Lucerne Piano Festival Report [PGW] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sokolov acknowledged the applause with one bow and then retired for the interval, leaving the audience, some of whom had been bewildered to know exactly what they had been hearing, with plenty to discuss.
		By now, one felt that Sokolov, far from tiring, was enjoying the particular pleasure of hearing his own playing, which sounds uncommonly true on the platform (as many pianists before him have testified).
		Sokolov's discography does not include any Haydn, so interested readers would do well to seek out this very desirable Athene 22 release instead.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2001/Dec01/lucernepiano.htm (3628 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Grigory Sokolov :: Classical Music
		Sokolov plays all music as if it is polyphonic, and thus ensures a clarity that has no parallel.
		Sokolov can play anything without effort, but is equally as remarkable for his sound quality.
		What Sokolov offered was not a presentiment of death; rather it was an emotional development proceeding entirely from musical logic and content, coloured with stylistic allusion – an impressionistic opening phrase, followed by a precise, almost-Bachian one, before the music swelled into an outburst of immense power.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=2519 (721 words)

	Grigory Sokolov - Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The French producer and musician Bruno Monsaingeon whose legendary collaborations with Glenn Gould, Menuhin and Richter have become classics of the genre, persuaded Grigory Sokolov to consent to the release of his first new live recording for a decade.
		Grigory Sokolov in an artist of visionary insight and profound spritituality.
		However he does seem happy for radio stations to record concerts and of course enterprising individuals with DAT players are often seen to be furtively taping his recitals.
	www.thump.org /sokolov (329 words)

	Guardian \| Grigory Sokolov
		Even the most devoted of the fans who packed out the darkened auditorium at this sold-out recital couldn't claim to be won over by Grigory Sokolov's stage presence at the piano.
		But, despite the almost startling clarity of Sokolov's playing, the third movement was skittish without sounding genuinely playful, and the interrupted snatches of melody towards the end of the finale didn't seem as though they were being curtailed for any good reason.
		The gentler Impromptu Op 36 in F sharp sounded truly eloquent, Sokolov sustaining a remarkable level of intensity; the second of the two Op 62 Nocturnes brought some real, rhapsodic passion and a sense that we were finally hearing something personal to Sokolov himself.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5174999-110430,00.html (340 words)

	classical music - andante - grigory sokolov
		Born in St Petersburg, Grigory Sokolov began studying piano when he was five, attracting early attention from Russian musical circles due to his precocious and extraordinary talent.
		About his recording of The Art of Fugue with Opus 111, critic Bill Newman describes Sokolov's performance as full of skill, clarity and rythmic panache.
		Grigory Sokolov's performances use the whole spectrum of colours allowed by the instrument and contrast the slightest nuances of the partition.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23253 (347 words)

	YouTube - Sokolov plays Couperin's Le Tic-Tac-Chock
		Sokolov shows what can be the highest musical honesty and unrivalled mastery in baroque repertoire without playing on a harpsichord.
		Grigory Sokolov plays the Prelude in B minor (Bach / Siloti)
		Grigory Sokolov plays Chopin Sonata #2, B-flat minor, Op.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=pR6kpZzOGdo (269 words)

	YouTube - Beethoven - Sonata op.28
		Many Russians play with a lush, dark, sound, but Sokolov is crystal clear, with biting attack.
		Sokolov's performances suffer frequently from these rhythmic types of affectation.
		In spite of low publicity Grigory is one of best pianists ever.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=9eQyx3PIXsg (394 words)

	Barbican - Grigory Sokolov
		’Sokolov’s fingers can do anything required of them: the clarity of articulation is total and the power of a crescendo seemingly infinite.’ The Times
		Ever since his first major piano recital in Leningrad at the age of 12, Sokolov has amazed everyone again and again with his breadth of repertoire and his huge, almost physical musical strength.
		By using little pedal, he relies on superior finger-work to draw an immense variety of sounds; his interpretations are poetic and highly individual, and his rhythmic freedom and elasticity of phrase are perhaps unequalled among pianists today.
	www.barbican.org.uk /music/event-detail.asp?ID=3356 (145 words)

	Grigory Sokolov and his "cosmic" piano - Festival International de Colmar
		On November the 10th, the Theâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, lived once more an evening of exception with the annual recital of Grigory Sokolov.
		Early "Sokolovians" amuses themselves with the craze of those who jumped on the bandwagon, but they can never reunite those who do not adhere to the genius of this Russian pianist.
		With the sound palette the most varied by all the pianists in service, it is the real cosmos which opens us Sokolov.
	www.festival-colmar.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=217&Itemid=105&lang=en (216 words)

	Grigory Sokolov - piano: cds and downloads overview on Classic Cat
		Grigory Sokolov: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms [Box Set]
		New Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Grigory Sokolov, Janusz Olejniczak
		Danielle Laval, Grigory Sokolov, Janusz Olejniczak et al.
	www.classiccat.net /performers/sokolov_grigory.htm (149 words)

	Grigory Sokolov - Live in Paris Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
		Synopsis: Noted pianist Grigory Sokolov breaks his five year recording silence with this live recording at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees from November of 2002.
		Noted pianist Grigory Sokolov breaks his five year recording silence with this live recording at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees from November of 2002.
		Featuring pieces for piano by Bach, Couperin, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Komitas, this recording is sure to please his fans who are hungry for more of his performances.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/grigory_sokolov_live_in_paris (320 words)

	Amazon.com: Grigory Sokolov - Live in Paris: Grigory Sokolov, Bruno Monsaingeon: Movies & TV
		Amazon.com: Grigory Sokolov - Live in Paris: Grigory Sokolov, Bruno Monsaingeon: Movies and TV Hello.
		Buy this DVD with Grigory Sokolov: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms [Box Set] ~ Johann Sebastian Bach today!
		Grigory Sokolov (Box Set) ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
	www.amazon.com /Grigory-Sokolov-Live-Paris/dp/B0000T4U3Y (353 words)

	Grigory Sokolov - pianist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'm glad you've found these pages devoted to one of our greatest artists, Grigory Sokolov.
		If you've never heard him play live then that experience awaits you; if you know his playing then I imagine you'll concur with the opinions expressed in the
		Sokolov has made some recordings (though by other pianists standards, not many) - read through the discography to see which CDs you should buy.
	www.thump.org /sokolov/contents.html (79 words)

	Video Grigory Sokolov - Sergeï Prokofiev - piano, classique - Dailymotion Share Your Videos
		Né à Saint-Pétersbourg, Grigory Sokolov entreprend l'étude du piano dès l'âge de cinq ans, suscitant l'attention du monde musical russe pour ses dons extraordinaires et précoces.
		Grigory Sokolov - Sergeandiuml; Prokofiev Uploaded by midu92
		Pour en arriver là Grigory Sokolov a effectivement bossé...depuis l'âge de 5 ans !
	www.dailymotion.com /video/x316fq_grigory-sokolov-sergei-prokofiev_music (342 words)

	Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Grigory Sokolov
		Grigory Sokolov has performed with orchestras such as the Munich and New York Philharmonics, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony.
		The native of Saint Petersburg insists on live recordings, in order to escape the sterile atmosphere of a studio, and never ceases to amaze with the tremendous range of his repertoire and the almost physical presence of his musical power.
		This page was last changed on 09-02-2006, 08:36 PM
	www.kammerphilharmonie.com /en/Grigory_Sokolov_2.html (87 words)

	Grigory Sokolov: Live in Paris - Beethoven/Komitas/Prokofiev (2002) - Overview - MSN Movies
		Grigory Sokolov: Live in Paris - Beethoven/Komitas/Prokofiev (2002) - Overview - MSN Movies
		Synopsis: Grigory Sokolov: Live in Paris - Beethoven/Komitas/Prokof features the renowned pianist performing a variety of pieces from those legendary composers.
		The encores include additional material composed by Chopin, Couperin, and Bach.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie/grigory-sokolov-live-in-paris-beethoven-komitas-prokofiev (45 words)

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