Arcadia volodos rachmaninov biography

Arcadi Volodos is a Russian pianist. His first name is sometimes transliterated Arcady or Arkady. Volodos is renowned both for his technical mastery of the instrument's virtuosic repertoire (particularly that of Rachmaninoff, Liszt and his recordings of transcriptions by Vladimir Horowitz) and for his notoriously technically difficult arrangements of various classical pieces, such as Mozart's Rondo Alla Turka.

When he made his debut in New York in 1991, the Russian-born pianist Arcadi Volodos was unknown in the United States.

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By the time he made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in the autumn of 1998, the fame he achieved through successful concert tours and recordings was more than a pleasant surprise. Volodos was considered one of the most gifted young artists that vied to fill the void left by the legendary Vladimir Horowitz after his death in 1989.

The album produced from the Carnegie Hall concert won Volodos the prestigious Gramophone award at L