Sokolov - Byrd.wmv 

Listening to Sokolov's playing one always overcome with that sense of discovery. Seems that whatever Sokolov takes on results in articulation of unexpected/overlooked aspects of the often well known material. Hard to believe that apparently no one has touched or uncovered them before... His level of intimacy with material he plays is just unprecedented. Unrivaled musicality - one of the piano all-times giants...

Sokolov has such an ability to showcase the life of these pieces.

Yes, he plays Cembalo music on a piano. Listen to it for a while and you'll probably completely forget about that. It's simpy amazing.

An adventure of sound and pure freedom.

Marvellous.

Amazing! Thanks so much for that! Спасибо большое!

Byrd was very pianistic and his music works very well with a modern instrument.

Che meraviglia! È strepitoso!...

Благодарю! Удивляешься

This music is so well adapted to the modern piano....very astute observation @mmbmbmbmb

Meraviglioso

This sounds so contemporary. Like a Keith Jarett-Interpretation of J.S. Bach. If I had not read up on William Byrd, I would never have assigned this piece to the 17th Century ;o) Fabulous piano by Grigory Sokolov ~ thank you!

Unglaublich...Grandios

I find him more touching than gould in this kind of repertoire

A few seconds in and I already have goosebumps...

Великолепно,какое прекрасное исполнение!

Блеск!