04-02-2022 Katholiek Nieuwsblad
"Nino Gvetadze plays both concerts on a modern wing reminiscent of nineteenth-century principles are replicated. The instrument approaches the sound world of the piano at the time of Beethoven. This way we get an adequate impression of the two wonderful concerts held by Beethoven's contemporaries were scorned.
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01-03-2021 Fanfare
"Nino Gvetadze's playing is not only technically solid, easily able to handle the treacherous difficulties found in this music—particularly those in the dauntingly virtuosic Kreisleriana—but musically satisfying. Her playing is always eloquent, even in the most bombastic passages. And magically she does not underplay this music in any way: In her hands Florestan is still frenzied and driven, Eusebius, tender and plaintive. [...] I was especially not expecting a Schumann album that so immediately goes to the top of my future recommendation list. But that is what I received. This is one of the best Schumann albums I have come across in some time, one which I will enjoy over and over again. Though I have never come across Gvetadze's name before, you can be sure I will look out for it in the future. Recommended. This is essential listening. "
01-01-2021 Piano News
"The tremendous artistic means at her disposal let the Schumann of this time "speak" - with very well-designed tempo nuances, a sound that is as rounded as it is rich and a sense of dramaturgical skill, with tense, delusional and ambiguous contrasts. The whole thing is so haunting that one looks into Schumann's own soul in the "Scenes from Childhood".
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01-12-2020 Gramophone
"Gvetadze's focus is unerring and, if the expressive content of the music is always front and centre, she also has an uncanny ability to elucidate the overall structure with immensive subtlety. If you don't yet know her playing, great pleasures await."
20-11-2020 Pianist
"Schumann in lockdown. According to Nino Gvetadze, we all have those two opposites in us. During the lockdown they became even more tangible."
26-10-2020 BBC Radio3
"It’s an absolutely lovely disc. It speaks clearly and personally to you, if you give it a listen. I found it very rewarding."
22-10-2020 Independent
"Her new CD, with its purpose – in her own words, to brighten an hour in this year of “loneliness, isolation, and silence” – is an unalloyed delight."
17-09-2020 Musique classique & Co
"What struck me the most, besides the right but personal characterization of the pieces, was hearing all the notes, all the polyphony in full clarity, without losing the general line. [...] A discovery.
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17-09-2020 Musique classique & Co
"What struck me the most, besides the accurate but personal characterization of the pieces, was hearing all the notes, all the polyphony in full clarity without losing the general line."
11-09-2020 Mania
"Her playing is captivating in the modest and natural phrasing. In addition, Gvetadze Schumann's tender moments or his musical outbursts manage to give the required intensity without any emphasis."
10-09-2020 De Volkskrant
"When Nino Gvetadze's fingers touch the keys of the grand piano and the opening bars of Robert Schumann's Arabesque sound, you forget what you were doing. Gvetadze's mesmerizing touch and round sound are enchanting."
04-09-2020 Diapason
"Pre-Raphaelite music by Cyril Scott deserves a visit... Nino Gvetadze's anthology is all made of tranquillity.
5 Diapason
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04-09-2020 Opus Klassiek
"Important qualities in Schumann's piano oeuvre that are actually perfectly expressed in the sublime art of rendering of the Georgian Nino Gvetadze, who lives and works in our country."
31-08-2020 NRC
"Pianist Nino Gvetadze lets her listeners wander admiringly through the shadowy realm of Robert Schumann."
21-08-2020 Stretto
"Nino Gvetadze, Einsam, Robert Schumann on the Challenge Classics label. Beautiful piano playing."
06-03-2020 Classic Voice
"Cyril Scott, a mysteious musician who deserves attention... Nino Gvetadze handles with love, expression and a gentle touch 22 pieces of his piano music... Scott was the avantguarde of those who today rediscover tonality and melody with no sense of guilt."
04-03-2020 Music web International
"Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze gives a memorable and perfectly executed account of these diverse pieces. This album gives an encouraging and inspiring ‘glimpse into the atmospheric, rich, beautiful, tender, sometimes wayward and meditative world of Cyril Scott."
19-02-2020 American Record Guide
"These are highly perfumed performances of music that leans heavily in the direction of impressionism. Moreover, the 22 tracks give us an enticing sampling that can be unreservedly recommended.
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08-11-2019 Luister
"Gvetadze creates a nice balance between beauty and architecture, between speed and tranquility."
08-11-2019 Luister
"According to Scott, music was meant to reach the ideal state of mind, to get to the core of yourself." A beautiful story about who Scott is and how Nino Gvetadze sees him. Luister magazine is in the shops now!"
05-11-2019 Stretto
"A tribute to a composer today ignored by the Georgian-Dutch pianist Nino Gvetadze who gives these fascinating works with her loving and modest playing a velvety shine. gives a velvety sheen. A particularly beautiful CD, a real discovery."
30-10-2019 De Standaard
"With feathery meandering playing and textures that are crystal clear and sensual at the same time, she guides you through Scott's static pieces."
24-10-2019 NRC
"Gvetadze hits a 'bullseye' with unknown Scott. …Gvetadze performances are beautiful: narrative, colourful, transparent."
15-10-2019 Pizzicato
"These pieces are a treasure box for every pianist, and the fact that Nino Gvetadze feels very comfortable with them cannot be overheard. She plays imaginatively, letting the French characteristics of the music become just as clear as its unusual rhythms, and all this in manifold shimmering colours.
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04-10-2019 Het Parool
"Gvetadze makes her grand piano whisper and sing and let the rich colorite of the music shine beautifully. With her refined touch, she manages to touch the nocturnal, dreamy atmosphere that characterizes many of the pieces."
01-10-2019 De Nieuwe Muze
"Gvetadze highlights both the uniqueness and the importance of Scott's work through her refined playing and sometimes remarkable tempo choices."
22-07-2019 Opus Klassiek
"A strong aspiring an blissful yearning,
Befreed from sense of separateness or dole;
A gladness born of last delights' enrapt returning,
To lie embraced for eye within the soul.
That mood image applies entirely to the music, and to the special interpretation. I hope for more Cyril Scott from Nino Gvetadze."
01-01-2019 Luister
"'Classical music tells the most enchanting stories' - Nino Gvetadze, pianist"
02-07-2018 Fanfare
"Gvetadze seems always to have the whole in mind, and as a result her collection seems something more than a sum of its parts. "
01-03-2018 Fono Forum
"Nino Gvetadze convinces manually and musically in every beat, above all the slender lightness and tonal transparency of her playing are exemplary."
28-02-2018 Scherzo
"Chopin, in the hands of Gvetadze, is almost a prayer to universal beauty."
16-02-2018 Crescendo.de
"Nino Gvetadze evokes the spirits on her amazingly dark Steinway D grand piano and interprets these 24 engnimatic miniatures as dream pictures of the night, as poetic reflections on the unavoidable existence of death... A thrilling recording!
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09-02-2018 Pianist
"Gvetadze makes the listener - partly thanks to the wonderful recording - companion of the most intimate thoughts."
07-02-2018 Musicweb
"When it comes to Chopin and piano recordings this one is very much the real thing, and richly deserving of your urgent attention."
19-01-2018 Luister
"Her touch is light, her technique transparent, the phrases beautifully elastic and the atmosphere generally dreamy-mindful."
21-12-2017 Classic FM
"To celebrate Classic FM's collaboration with the music streaming service MeloMe, Classic FM gives away five copies of the beautiful new album 'Ghosts' by pianist Nino Gvetadze."
20-12-2017 Klara
"Klara's choice:
It is clear: Nino Gvetadze is a pianist to discover!"
18-12-2017 Klara
"An attractive and varied Chopin-program, and Nino Gvetadze plays it all sensitive and beautiful, and with a remarkably rich piano sound."
17-11-2017 Pianist
"The star of the Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze rose quickly when in 2008 she won the second prize, the audience award and the press prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Now she releases a CD on Challenge Records with the preludes by Frédéric Chopin with the meaningful title Ghosts."
09-11-2017 Pizzicato
"Nino Gvetadze deliberately looks for dramatic feelings in Chopin’s Preludes, she emphasizes sorrow and fear, but also joy and optimism. She digs deep into the composer’s soul, and her technical skills and her taste allow her really appealing performances.
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