- (2019) Melómano – Classical music magazine Spain, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Abelardo Martín Ruiz gives 5 stars ★★★★★ & monthly recommendation: “The cellist offers a contrasting proposal through an understanding of this music from a deep sensitivity and romantic expressiveness, with the brilliance and luminosity of the author’s language – a characteristic combination delimited by a resonance achieved through a complete understanding of gut strings’ acoustic production. On the other hand, the pianist configures this proposal from the sonority of a historical instrument of the time, with a touching sound quality, highlighting both her mastery of the articulations as well as her clarity and precision, with a perfect timbre in the balance of diction of the speech. Particularly moving are the interpretations of the slow movements… The rapid movements possess the energy of Mendelssohn’s exuberance… an idiomatic, prodigious knowledge of both instruments… an expressiveness of intense emotional component.”
- (2019) Early Music Review – International review website, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Dr. James Ross: „The Spanish cellist Guadalupe López Íñiguez’s 1725 Claude Pieray cello has been set up in the manner of early 19th-century instruments and fairly sings Mendelssohn’s lovely lyrical lines, while Olga Andryushchenko’s virtuosic and passionate playing on her 1862 Erard piano is also wonderfully expressive. […] The energy and technical assurance of all of this music is a testimony to the genius of its remarkable composer.“
- (2019) Gramophone – Classical music magazine France, 20th Century Solo Piano Works CD Review by Bertrand Boissard gives 5 stars ★★★★★: „The anthology of Olga Andryuschchenko captivates from beginning to end. From the mineral harshness of the sonate n°6 by Oustvolskaïa to the receding Preludes by Denisov, this half-century of after-war music is marked by the powerful presence of Gubaidulina’s Chaconne and the Sonate N°1 by Silvestrov, who meanders and roams around. After her albums so elegantly precise about Mossolov and Roslavetz, the young lady trained under Lubimov and Krainev is bluffing us with both her mastery and curiosity.“
- (2019) BBC Music Magazine – Classical music magazine UK, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review: “Mendelssohn’s cello works call for spirited playing, which is what we get here. The Érard piano sparkles; the cello playing is bold and confident.“
- (2019) Musicalifeiten – Classical music website, The Netherlands, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Jan De Kruijff: “Perhaps this new recording [has] a bit more of the [original] spirit [than previous recordings by other artists]. As a first step towards “authenticity”, the duo provides very spiritual interpretations in which the piano sparkles and the cello can be heard warm and full of brilliance. Just listen to what the two make of the second part of the Sonata no. 1, which is at the same time scherzo and slow—well characterised—or how nice are the Variations Concertantes by presenting a mixture of panache and subtlety. The “corner” parts of sonata no. 2 also sound very spontaneous.”
- (2019) Classique HD – Independent Review Site, France, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Nicolas Roberge: “En cherchant bien à travers le son, on devine le jeu fluide et sensible de Guadalupe, les notes sont d’une extrême sensibilité et pleine de poésie. Le piano d’Olga fait son travail, son accompagnement est bien en place et la souplesse du poignet rend le jeu de Guadalupe encore plus divin. […] On atteint une plénitude dans « Assai Tranquillo en B MINOR », c’est magnifiquement interprété.“
- (2019) Pizzicato – Music journal, Luxembourg, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Uwe Krusch gives 5 stars ★★★★★: “Guadalupe Lopez Iniguez and Olga Andryushchenko play Mendelssohn’s cello chamber works on period instruments and orientate themselves towards historical sources. But since they are spicing their performances with own ideas, the result is rhetoric and therefore really gripping.“
- (2019) Rondo Classic – Music magazine, Finland, Mendelssohn Cello-Piano CD review by Antti Häyrynen: “[…] for example, in the D major Sonata op. 45 both skill challenges and romantic expressions come out with impressive results.“
- (2018) Roslavets CD Review – Ritmo, by Juan Carlos Moreno gives ★★★★★: „This interpretation by Olga Andryushchenko is optimal.“
- (2018) 20th Century Solo Piano Works CD Review – Kultura, by Denis Bocharov: „Вашему вниманию предлагаются фортепианные произведения русского музыкального авангарда 1960–90-х годов в исполнении Ольги Андрющенко.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – American Record Guide by Jack Sullivan: „The melody is always clear, always poetic, even in the murkiest textures and most disturbed harmonies. Listen to her delicacy in the Second Etude, so beautifully nuanced, or in the darkly beautiful ‘Berceuse’. In Grand Piano’s excellent recording we hear all the layers, but are mainly aware of the enigmatic melodies.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – Diapason, by Bertrand Boissard gives ★★★★: „The Russian pianist [Olga Andryushchenko] excels in the fast and light motifs, ‘svelte’, very Scriabin-esque, and negotiates the dramatic and dynamic progression of the works better than Marc-André Hamelin’s reserve from an emotional point of view… The double album of Andryushchenko, offering six world première recordings, stands out all the more for the passionate and intense interpretation of the Sonata No. 1.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – Classica, by Michel Fleury gives ★★★★: „This music reconciles a romantic expressionism with a rigorous construction and regulated proportions following implacable mathematical rules… The works’ frightening virtuosity demands fingers of steel, their sound seeking a large range of timbres and their draconian logic a keen sense of construction—all qualities in the possession of Olga Andryushchenko, who adds a welcome sensuality in these overtly Scriabinian pieces, clearly outperforming the rather dry vision of the excellent Marc-André Hamelin.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – MusicWeb International, by Richard Hanlon: „Ms Andryushchenko is a compelling player and an illuminating guide to all of this music, she is vividly recorded and she offers a somewhat different approach in this repertoire…and largely because it has no real performing tradition to speak of, I have found her accounts just as riveting as those by her more celebrated rival. Roslavets’ work is appealing on a number of levels and you will find much to enjoy on this terrific pair of discs.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – MusicWeb International, by Stephen Barber: „She commands a delicate touch, a comprehensive technique and an ability to gauge and balance Roslavets’s complex textures. The recording is admirably clear and full.“
- (2017) Roslavets CD Review – Fanfare, by Barry Brenesal: „The performances are uniformly excellent. Andryushchenko does her best to illuminate the inner voices in the dense textures of the earlier works. She has a good grasp of Roslavets’s harmonic implementation of tension-and-release, employing fluid variations in tempo and dynamics to provide expressive variety. Andryushchenko is insightful and has technique to burn. Recommended.“
- (2016) Mosolov CD Review – Diapason, by Bertrand Boissard gives ★★★★★: „The Russian pianist [Olga Andryushchenko] possesses not only the necessary technical resources to this demanding music, but also the physical engagement and the sense of mystery.“
- (2016) Mosolov CD Review – American Record Guide, by James Harrington: „We should all be grateful to a brilliant pianist like Andryushchenko for making the huge effort to learn these brutally difficult works and giving them a chance to be heard.“
- (2016) Mosolov CD Review – MusicWeb International, by Richard Kraus: „Olga Andryushchenko is an impressive Russian pianist. Andryushchenko’s playing is often dazzling, and she draws an astonishing array of sounds from her Steinway. This is another fine Grand Piano project, with a smart musician performing undeservedly obscure music in fine-sounding recordings.“
- (2000) Concert Review – The Russian Musical Newspaper: „Olga Andryushchenko happily combines a brilliant soloist talent and a sharp, responsive ability of a partner in ensemble. In her performances there are always genuine performer’s mastership, clarity, and richness of sound; her performing of compositions by Schubert or Prokofiev are competent and inspirational.“
OLGA ANDRYUSHCHENKO 