Vadym Kholodenko plays Beethoven and Liszt

Having shot to fame in 2013 as gold medallist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Vadym Kholodenko has gone on to collaborate with Iván Fischer, Cristian Măcelaru, and Karina Canellakis, and appeared with leading orchestras across the globe. He comes to the stage here, at Wigmore Hall in London, as soloist in a concert featuring the sonata Beethoven penned after being gifted a new instrument by piano maker Thomas Broadwood, as well as the studies Liszt composed and dedicated to Clara Schumann, having himself acquired the very same keyboard years later. We'll also hear the impassioned preludes of Ukranian composer Borys Lyatoshinsky, each prefaced by quotations from the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and written during the Second World War, when Lyatoshinsky had been evacuated to the city of Saratov on the River Volga.

Recorded on 9 December at Wigmore Hall in London and presented by Martin Handley.

BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

Interval

LYATOSHINSKY
3 Preludes, Op. 38

LISZT
6 Etudes d'exécution transcendante d’après Paganini, S140

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

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