"It's not an elegant phrase, but I will use it anyway: we were blown away! Peskanov's playing sweeps the listener along. His Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto had us breathing witn every phrase, climbing the heights of every climax.

If you ever get a chance to hear Peskanov perform Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude", we have one word of advice: "Go!""
-- Clavier Magazine

         "This brilliant pianist can create incredible excitement and knows how to please a crowd. "

The Washington Post

         "A powerful player with a temperament and virtuoso flair."
-- The New York Times

         "Peskanov gave a total performance, full of energy and lyricism"
-- The Financial Times, London

         "...amazing technique..demonic energy..."
-- The Los Angeles Times

         "His Mozart was marked by fleet finger work, crisp phrasing, and all manner of rhythmic and coloristic shading. Peskanov demonstrated he was master of virtuoso piano repertoire, as well in the Liszt Malediction."
-- The Atlanta Journal

         "He is a romantic pianist in the best sense. A Liszt Concerto under his steely fingers is no mere recreation of a quaint 19th Century chestnut: it is an event. Peskanov has one of the biggest sounds since Emil Gilels. "

-- The Baltimore Sun

         "The performance was majestic, and perhaps it seemed all the more so because it had no false airs about it. "

-- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

         "Peskanov gave a spectacular display of technical prowess and musical understanding in his performance of these works of heroic scale. "

-- The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

         "Alexander Peskanov unleashed explosions of virtuosity in a program that left no holds barred... a truly dizzying blast of keyboard fireworks that brought the audience to their feet. "

-- The Seattle Times

         "The Carmen Fantasy, which came last, showed a kind of pianistic glitter that has just about disappeared with the deaths of the great turn-of-the-century virtosos. Comparison with Horowitz, for instance, is almost unavoidable. "

-- The Winston-Salem Journal

         "The fascination of Peskanov is that he is a complete pianist. A conspicuous feature of Russian pianists is a mastery of tonal color, and the tradition lives on in the work of Peskanov, for he played a program calling for a variety of dynamic approaches and met challenges magnificently. "

-- The The Sacramento Bee

         "Pianist Peskanov Fires Up the Keys in Bachauer Recital "

-- Salt Lake Tribune