Within a month ‘Chiaroscuro’ album reached 2M streams, being selected for Apple Music’s “10 Classical Albums” as well as getting new reviews:
“Her fingerwork in a late, brief and searching Mozart Gigue is pure fortepiano fantasy, and she opens the glorious Unser dummer Pöbel meint Variations with a perfectly straight face before the expression breaks into laughter and smiles, with a superbly articulated cross-hand Variation 8 to recall the remarkable caprice of her Chopin Etudes(on Piano Classics). As a one-time pupil of Pletnev, Zlata explores shade after shade of pianissimo dynamics in Scriabin’s Tenth Sonata. No reservations.”- PIANIST ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“One can well understand how, in the
booklet interview, Chochieva speaks of Scriabin as the great musical love of her childhood. In the two sonatas especially, one hears an extraordinary ebb and flow, a clarity of thought and feeling that progresses with a logical inevitability and cohesion unusual in even the finest Scriabin-playing.”- Gramophone
“What Chochieva presents over 77 minutes is of such clarity, lightness and depth of soul that the kinship becomes compelling. She alternates between Mozart’s Variations from the 1780s and Scriabin’s Preludes and Sonatas, composed over 100 years later. She does not temper contrasts but her fluid, delicate style is here unmistakable. Wonderfully sensitive piano artistry.”- Sächsische Zeitung Dresden
“The Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva offers up an irresistible combination. On her album “Chiaroscuro” she combines Mozart Variations with Sonatas by Scriabin. And suddenly a lot of things become easier and clearer.”
– Tagesspiegel
“(Re)creations” (Accentus 30531, July/Aug 2021) was a superb program of piano transcriptions by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Friedman that made my critics choice list last year. This release (“Chiaroscuro”) continues her well-thought-out and fascinating recordings as well as her world-class piano playing.”- American Record Guide

Ph.: Adriano Heitmann