The Salzburg Festival has a few regular pianists, who give a recital every year. One of those pianists is Arcadi Volodos, born in the Soviet Union in 1972. (He has lived most of his life in the West.

Here at the Salzburg Festival, there are regular, recurring pianists: Maurizio Pollini, Grigory Sokolov, Arcadi Volodos, others. Last night, it was the turn of Volodos, who played a recital in the ...

The Russian-born pianist Arcadi Volodos, who gave a characteristically elusive and unsettling recital Sunday night in Davies Symphony Hall, is your basic international man of mystery. He seems most at ...

But first of all, there is that sound. What a sound it is. Volodos can produce a tone – whether at impassioned heights or more hushed than we’d have imagined a concert grand piano could be – that is ...