Catalin Serban
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Catalin Serban offered Bartók’s third piano concerto. The performance demanded less of sheer technique and more of a breathed cantabile quality and smoothness, which the young Romanian pursued with penetrating intensity, as if he wanted to leave every impression of craftsmanship far behind.”

taz

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Here, the pianist Catalin Serban must be mentioned first, who especially in Liszt’s 1st Mephisto Waltz, with brilliant playing and the required sense of demonism, brought to mind Horowitz’s late Carnegie performance.”

Lübecker Nachrichten

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SKRIABIN Sonata No.2
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BRAHMS Piano Quintet with Veriko Tchumburidze, Dayoon You, Sindy Mohamed and Andrei Ioniță
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SCHUBERT Sonata G major D894 2. movement
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SCHUBERT Sonata D 960 b flat major
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RACHMANINOFF Sonata g minor op.19 with Andrei Ioniță
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CHOPIN Préludes op.28 1-17
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LISZT Sonata b minor

CDs

CD-Cover Resemblances – Catalin Serban

Resemblances

Released by Genuin Classics – Sonatas, Nocturnes, and Fantasies by Scriabin and Chopin.

According to Serban, the development of melodic and also harmonic material in a tight space, was ‘completely new with Chopin and Scriabin continued this directly’. […] Particularly in the two Sonatas No. 3, the similarities between the two composers shine through, but pianistic differences are also presented in a differentiated way, so that the listener gets a varied and stimulating impression. There is a wonderful versatility of timbres.“

Bechstein
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CD-Cover Des cloches sonores – Catalin Serban

Des cloches sonores

Released by Dreyer Gaido – Solo works by Schubert, Scriabin, and Enescu.

The performance of the Schubert sonata is especially impressive […] Serban uses more pedal than most other artists […] as well as a gentler touch at the keyboard, which results in some wonderfully atmospheric effects. And here he does indeed create bell-like sonorities.“

L.R. Bayley
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