“Artistic Quality: 8. Sound Quality: 9.” —Jed Distler, Review of Scarlatti, Schubert, and Liszt, Classics Today

“Rashkovetsky can summon any degree of virtuosity, and does so at the service of the music… [She] performs with clear direction, careful attention, and masterful delivery, above all; she has the best piano sound for everyoccasion. Her dramatic temperament darkens the sound and gives it body, while here rhetorical flare and fine timing deliver each phrase as a newly minted idea. The Lisztian side of Scarlatti seems intuitive in her playing, with a magical glitter of turns, shakes, arpeggiated flashes, and scales scraping to goals with detached notes at breakneck speeds. Nothing is accidental, repeats reveal her alert ear and evolving narrative.” —Robert Dumm, Clavier

“As a Scarlatti interpreter, Marianna Rashkovetsky proudly pulls out all the pianistic stops, color­ing a group of seven sonatas with a palette of dynamics, articulations and pedalings.Her playing oozes imagination and character at every turn. Listen to how ravishingly she shades the B flat sonata’s repeated phrases, or to the eloquent, rounded diction of her comely trills in the D major and E flat major … In the [Schubert sonata] she achieves a perfect balance…[while her] Liszt is brisk, precise and supple. Rashkovetsky s beautifully adjusted soft runs and repeated notes in the tender central episode, are worth the price of admission.” —Jed Distler, Classics Today

“The readings of the Three Intermezzos, Op. 117, are beautifully paced with effective nuances. She explores the implosive energy of the music as it builds to become something meaningful and inevitable. As a bonus her sound is ravishing, and her legato playing is utterly seamless. Rashkovetsky is fluid and expansive, aware of every harmonic event.” —John Bell Young, Clavier

“…A very fine pianist whose playing is distinguished by….the depth and sincerity of the performance, the filigree technique, the sound palette, [and] the artistry.” —Michael Manning, The Boston Globe

“Rashkovetsky’s tone, balance, and phrasing of these works are insightful and fresh …hard to believe, but true.” —Tony Scafide, Generation Media

“Marianna Rashkovetsky is a Bach player to the manner born. Here is an interpreter who grasps the inborn vivacity and affective nuance that lends to this music its rhythmic life as it pays homage to the dances that inspired its composer. In the post-twilight of Glenn Gould and Rosalyn Tureck, Ms. Rashkovetsky may well earn the moniker of the new First Lady of Bach.” —John Bell Young, The St. Petersburg Times