"Vurdering: Diapason découverte"

"In 2012, Kolesnikov took first prize in the Honens piano competition in Canada, and on the evidence of his effortlessly refined playing here, he was a worthy winner. His performances never overstretch the boundaries of what are, essentially, salon pieces, taking Schumann's early cycles such as Papillons and Carnaval as their model. But Kolesnikov invests them with their own quietly distinctive character"

"Fluid, fine-toned and with formidable power and dexterity when required, all these performances recreate Tchaikovsky's idiom, whether vivacious or drenched in Russian melancholy to rare degree ... On this showing Kolesnikov is already a master pianist and Hyperion has captured all the bloom of his magical sonority"