Scriabin - Prelude, Op. 16 No. 1 in B major

How he relishes Chopin's influence...His performance of the Fourth Sonata ('towards a blue flame') is a marvel of clarity and musicianship...More generally, everything is given with a warmth... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

For Ilić there are unmistakeable lines of continuity rather than division...[he] makes his case with unfaltering poise...Ilić is well recorded and will prompt even the most enterprising musicians... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

Incandescent, fleet-fingered historic performances from the mid-1950s, whose quicksilver emotional reflexes (generously pedalled) mirror exactly the music's neurotic restlessness and pulverising... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Liquid tone and flexible frasing...acute sensitivity to Scriabin's often acrid harmonies and to the jumpy way his ideas develop...well equiped to convey both the faded regret of the earlier... — Fanfare More…