"Shaping Poulenc's terse score of passionate outbursts, heart stopping pauses and snatches of sentimental melody, pianist Sergey Rybin was her indispensable partner, alive to each expressive nuance and registering, through music, her psychological descent to oblivion."
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(Nicholas Williams, Ham and High)
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"Sergey Rybin's accompaniment was authoritative and mesmerising. I liked the bareness of juxtaposing a single musical instrument with a single human voice. Deprived of the colour of orchestral instrumentation, the accompaniment took on an utterly appropriate spareness. Even the silences spoke. The style ranged from gruffness to tenderness, from brusqueness to delicacy. Rybin reminded me of Boris Berezovsky in the range of his command and understanding of this work of art."
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(Kenneth Carter, Classical Source)
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"... Atmosphere... owes a great deal to Sergey Rybin's ultra-sensitive accompaniments." (David Gutman, The Stage)
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