Gramophone Magazine
August 2022
Editor's Choice

Record Review
23rd July 2022
Record of the Week

Alexander Ullman (piano), Susan Monks (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S125

Alexander Ullman was the winner of the 2011 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music. His teachers include William Fong, Leon Fleisher and Dmitri Alexeev. Alexander’s debut album on Rubicon was a recital of great Russian ballet music arranged for piano – Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky – and received enthusiastic reviews from around the world. This album is his first concerto recording – the two Liszt Concertos are coupled with the B minor Sonata.

"These performances are not out to dazzle their listeners but to pull back the curtain on the unique imagination of one of the foremost architects of musical Romanticism. Very highly recommended." - Gramophone Magazine, August 2022.