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Rysanov, who conducted the first recording of the Cello Concerto (2008) with Kristina Blaumane on Tabakova’s breakthrough album ‘String Paths’, is ideal, his interpretation formed from two decades of experience playing this alternately contemplative and vigorous music.

Gramophone

Friday, July 21, 2023, Hattie Butterworth

Gramophone

'Disk of the month' December 2023

Maxim Rysanov brings a terrifically full-bodied performance to the concerto’s powerful outer movements, while adventuring deep into the timbral possibilities of the instrument in the work’s more mysterious inner movements.

BBC Music Magazine

BBC Music Magazine

The colours and contrasts Rysanov manages to extract from the orchestra are truly fabulous!

Crescendo

Crescendo

Bartók’s Viola Concerto was given an exemplary performance in the hands of the superb Maxim Rysanov.

Bachtrack

15 October 2023

Bachtrack

IN SCHUBERT'S COMPANY

Rysanov is a prince among viola players, and this is one of his finest albums to date

Gramophone

June 2017

Gramophone
ONYX

MARTINU

Only the Barbican's arid acoustic stops Norman Lebrecht awarding this disc of Martinů's viola music a rare fifth star, so fresh and contemporary are these performances by Maxim Rysanov.

Sinfini Music

27 April 2015

Sinfini Music
BIS

MOZART SINFONIA CONCERTANTE

Vilde Frang forms a dream team with Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov [...] The results are fresh and invigorating

The Sunday Times

February 2015

The Sunday Times
Warner Classics

BACH SUITES 2, 3 & 6

These sharply etched, punchy realizations immediately impress for their power and vitality.

International Record Review

March 2014

International Record Review
BIS

Dobrinka TABAKOVA - String Paths

GRAMMY nominated album

This is outstanding in every respect

International Record Review

May 2013

International Record Review
ECM

PAVANE

...the playing is absolutely sublime.

BBC Music Magazine

October 2012

BBC Music Magazine
BIS

SCHUBERT / TCHAIKOVSKY / BRUCH

Rysanov's dazzilng performance [of the Rococo] makes us believe that the work was tailor-made for his instrument.

BBC Music Magazine

July 2011

BBC Music Magazine
BIS

BEETHOVEN

It's packed full of delicious surprises....superbly played

Gramophone

July 2012

Gramophone
ONYX

BRAHMS VIOLA 2

Viola discs are flooding the market currently...but this Brahms chamber music CD from Maxim Rysanov steals the limelight...It's addictive.

The Observer

January 2011

The Observer
ONYX

BACH SUITES 1,4 & 5

No admirer of great viola playing should forgo the pleasures of Rysanov’s playing.

The Sunday Telegraph

July 2010

The Sunday Telegraph
BIS

BRAHMS VIOLA 1

.....compelling, vivid and packed with moments of great musical insight

BBC Music Magazine

July 2010

BBC Music Magazine
ONYX

BACH: INVENTIONS AND PARTITA

Both sets of Inventions receive exceptional performances, bursting with spirit and imagination

Gramophone

October 2007

Gramophone
DECCA

KANCHELI - STYX

Gramophone Editor's Choice October 2007

In short, here is a disc to blow the mind....

Gramophone

August 2007

Gramophone
ONYX

VIOLA RECITAL: MAXIM RYSANOV, AVIE

Gramophone Editor's Choice October 2007

....the playing, in its technical command and imaginative grasp, is outstanding.

Gramophone

August 2006

Gramophone
AVIE