There are times when it is good to look back 20 years. In this case it is to recall a concert by one amazing Russian pianist who performed the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #2 back in 1998.
Arcadi Volodos was Born in Leningrad in 1972, he began his musical training studying voice, following the example of his parents, who were singers, and later shifted his emphasis to conducting while a student at the Glinka Chapel School and the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Though he had played the piano from the age of eight, he did not devote himself to serious study of the instrument until 1987. His formal piano training took place at the Moscow Conservatory Music College with Galina Eguiazarova.
Volodos also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier. In Madrid, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music with Dimitri Bashkirov.
Now, here he is performing the Rachmaninov Concerto #2:
