The New Yorker says you should come to the Beethoven Institute at Mannes, where I am performing the C-minor Sonata, Op. 13 on 31 May, and then the C-minor Trio Op. 1, No. 3 on 3 June.
Review: "The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Celebrates Fifty Years on Stage"
Another review of the Beethoven Triple in Philadelphia.
“Ignat Solzhenitsyn drew magically delicate sonorities from the piano, integrating his part perfectly with those of both his solo partners and the orchestra.”
Review: "A Celebratory Chamber Orchestra Milestone"
A review of last Sunday's Beethoven's Triple with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Soovin Kim.
“Solzhenitsyn’s passagework was so elegant you wanted him to play Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto for an encore.”
Review: "A Cathartic Schnittke from the Brentanos and Solzhenitsyn"
A review of a recent Schnittke Quintet with the Brentano String Quartet at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
“Both as pianist and as conductor, Solzhenitsyn is an established master at interpreting music of such powerful emotional content. His playing, formidably sonorous and then, as the music’s demands evolved, caressingly lyrical, conspired with the equally intense and persuasive playing of the Brentanos to create a truly cathartic musical experience.”
Watch: Prokofiev & Shostakovich Sonatas
Recently I joined my great friend and extraordinary violist Hsin-Yun Huang at the studios of WQXR to talk about Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Then I played the middle movement of Prokofiev's Eighth Piano Sonata—
—and together we performed the second movement of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata.
