Andrey Gugnin’s latest album ‘Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky: Russian Ballets Suites‘, released in September 2025 on Hyperion, has received a 5* review in both BBC Music Magazine and Pianist Magazine:
BBC Music Magazine – 5*:
“This album sparkles like a glass bauble amidst the fairy lights… Andrey Gugnin is an ideal interpreter, a performer of agility and perceptiveness…it’s the sheer beauty of his playing in the gorgeous Intermezzo and Andante maestoso that makes this special.”
“Gugnin is dazzingly virtuosic – it must be quite a thing to hear these pieces in concert”
Pianist Magazine – 5*:
“Dazzling”
“His command of multi-level textures is astonishingly clear…his tempi are striking…but always absolutely convincing…and his ability to carry off a grand gesture (those breathtaking scales! those arpeggios!) shows him to be a real creature of the theatre.”
International Piano
Andrey also wrote an article for International Piano on his journey to recording the album and “the wonder of Russian ballet transcriptions”. Read it here:
international-piano.com/content/features/andrey-gugnin-the-wonder-of-russian-ballet-transcriptions