From the Press Reviews
Performance of Rakhmaninov the Third Concerto on April the 21st 2001
(North German Symphony orchestra, conductor Andrey Boreyko, Rostock, Germany)
"[Alexander Izbitser] was rewarded with raging, indefatigable applause
and the stamping of feet. The thrilled hearts couldn't calm down until
the tender and peaceful encore - the piano transcription of Schubert's
"Standchen" - had been played." "
Von Michael Baumgartl
Ostsee-Zeitung
April 24, 2001
A. Izbitser's Concert fantasy on a theme from "Ruslan and Ludmila" by M. Glinka
"...Pianist Alexander Izbitser, playing his own composition, showed his virtuosity by literally knocking the listener off his own feet with his theatrical texture, it seemed as though he was improvising on the spot. This performance demonstrated the depth, flexibility and power of the composer-pianist through passion and technique... The usual concert had in fact jumped of the academic rails and an artistic phenomena was born..."
Nadiezhda Tarshis.
Vechernii Leningrad
(Evening Leningrad)
January 2, 1991
Compact disc: Liszt's transcriptions and paraphrases.
Adelaide (Beethoven-Liszt)
"...Splendid and deeply affecting performance. Mr. Izbitser is...attuned to Beethoven idiom... Marvelously inning interpretation... In fact, having heard him play it, I would like to hear him play some Beethoven piano sonatas."
John Beversluis
American Record Guide
July/August 1999
Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto by F. Liszt
"...Pianist Alexander Izbitser's...solo... was a whirlwind technical display. It was an individual interpretation propelled by tremendous emotional involvement..."
Marsha Wagner
Sanibel Islander
February 1995
"...One gets a strong 'live' sense from the results... by virtue of Izbitser's unfettered spontaneity and instinctive command to Liszt's rhetorical syntax... An auspicious debut and an enjoyable disc".
Jed Distler
New York Concert Review
July 1999
"...It is evident, that listening to [Alexander Izbitser's] CD, we hear an art ist in full possession of his instrument, completely master of the morsels that he plays and endowed with a remarkable personality."
David Noakes
Figaro December 1998
(French-American edition)
