Teatro Regio, Parma
Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto in A major, whose special beauty seems enclosed in its harmonic instability, received an enthralling performance. Here, the piano is king, set in an intricate and insinuating orchestral web, constantly beckoned to penetrate its lines.

Pianist Anna Kravtchenko enchants the Savoia Theatre

The Turin Philharmonic closes its season
Campobasso …but if the orchestra receives due praise, compliments are not nearly enough for exceptional pianist Anna Kravtchenko.

... what was most striking in the performance was the firm, clear and determined intention of reviving pages of  notorious renown from an exquisitely personal new stance aimed at capturing features that are usually overlooked. All this was accomplished with an...

... Anna Kravtchenko is superb pianist who won the Busoni Prize when she was only 16. Her Liszt is magnificent, powerful, overwhelming, but also lyrical and pearly, as rarely happens with this composer, whose Sonata and Rhapsodies (here we have no. 12) can be “macho”...