“Besalyan is transformed by the substance of the music into a persona of greater authority and power.”
“Rachmaninoff’s works truly exposed Raffi Besalyan’s poetic world. With concentration to detail, he aspired to and revealed the inner intricacies of the music.”
“Besalyan’s magnetic presence, so necessary for the audience, was evident throughout the entire Liszt Sonata in b minor, where he displayed his highest skill in mastery of the unity of developing musical drama.”
October 1996
AZG, Yerevan, Armenia