Cristopher Axworthy, August 2025
“… Susanna opened with Scarlatti of delicacy and precision. A dynamic drive and energy within the notes themselves with subtle refined phrasing, managing to create a jewel of glistening brilliance. It was the same intelligence and refined tonal palette that gave such weight and importance to Liszt’s late Hungarian Rhapsody. A work rarely heard in the concert hall was here rediscovered and reborn with a refined musicianship that was of radiance and beauty rather than rhetorical showmanship.”
“Scriabin’s magical fourth sonata found the ideal interpreter in Susanna with a sense of balance that could allow Scriabin’s mellifluous invention to sing with glowing beauty wrapped in arabesques of gold and silver. Such sensitivity and sensibility that the melodic line was revealed rather than projected. The pianistic gymnastics of the second movement were played with masterly precision but always allowing for the sense of line the builds to the sumptuous vision of the star which she allowed to overpower and fill the piano with sumptuous sounds of exhilaration and excitement.”