Radio 3 in Concert

Martin Handley presents a concert recorded at London's Wigmore Hall on December 9, with Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko playing Beethoven, Liszt and Lyatoshinsky. Having shot to fame in 2013 as gold medallist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Kholodenko has gone on to collaborate with Iván Fischer, Cristian Macelaru and Karina Canellakis, and appeared with leading orchestras across the globe. He comes to the stage here at the Wigmore Hall as soloist in a concert featuring a 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. There also 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. 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).