It certainly is. Volodos played the Sonata in A minor, D. 845. Like many another Schubert sonata, it seems private, personal, barely intended for performance. Volodos understands Schubert’s world.

But Volodos unquestionably knows how to commune with Schubert, and I think Schubert would have approved—and often marveled—all through the sonata. The last movement—that allegretto rondo—was a bit of ...

Volodos continued to enchant through the encores, from a Schubert minuet with his own interpolations, via Mompou, late Brahms, a serenely beautiful Vivaldi/Bach sicilienne and, to end, the B major ...

And later, in the first of three of Liszt's arrangements of Schubert songs, Volodos lent "Der Muller und der Bach" an air of quiet transcendence entirely in keeping with the source.

There is more to this sonata than Volodos communicates, as those pianists who have dug deeper into its colours and harmonies have shown, but his beautifully controlled Schubert aspires to a kind ...

A lot of poetic, self-regarding, thoughtful piano playing emerged in the pre-intermission portion of Arcadi Volodos' first Los Angeles-area recital, Friday night in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Arcadi Volodos settles himself behind a restaurant piano and starts to play. For days, he's been concentrating on Rachmaninoff, but now Bill Evans comes to the fore -- some gently burnished jazz ...

Russian-born pianist Arcadi Volodos, 28, invites comparison with Evgeny Kissin, his senior by one year. Both came out of the Moscow Conservatory–the citadel of the Soviet system of virtuoso t… ...

Volodos will play music of Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. The 28-year-old pianist has been a hot commodity in the crowded piano […] ...