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2023-09-23 09:31:00
The juxtaposition of extreme eras of music makes people think about what is fascinating in the music: Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko on his London Piano Festival programme
Vadym Kholodenko at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2022The Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko gives a recital at the London Piano Festival at Kings Place on Friday 6 October 2023 playing a programme that moves from Handel's Suite in Bb HWV 440 and Haydn's Sonata in C sharp minor, Hob XVI No. 36 to Beethoven's Sonata No. 27, Op. 90 to Silvestrov's Bagatelles Op. 1 and Adès' Traced Overhead, ending with Liszt's Après une lecture de Dante and Tarantella in G minor from Années de pèlerinage II (Italy). And Vadym returns to the UK in December for Bartók's Piano Concerto No.3 with the Ulster Orchestra, conductor Elena Schwarz. Vadym Kholodenko (Photo: Jean-Baptiste Millot)Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Vadym took his first piano lessons at the age of six and began touring internationally at thirteen years old. Educated at the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, he studied […]
2021-09-27 15:13:49
Horowitz, more, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: September 27, 2021. Pianists and a Singer. October 1st is a big day for the pianists: Vladimir Horowitz was born on that day in 1903, and Vera Gornostayeva in 1939. Horowitz is world-famous, we’ve written about him on several occasions (for example, here), but still cannot quite come to terms with his art. Somehow, Horowitz managed to combine a sublime touch and bombast, the most incisive interpretation with showmanship, very often in the same recording. There are some pianists, like Arthur Rubinstein, who sound flawless to us, even if during their long careers they had changed the way they played some pieces (which Rubinstein, for one, certainly did). Horowitz is not like that: you listen to him and sometimes cringe: why so fast, why this blur, where’s the music? And the next moment everything is perfect, and you start thinking that maybe the mayhem he created […]
2020-09-28 14:19:31
[…] beginning of one of the most brilliant pianist careers of the 20th century, even though Horowitz interrupted it four times, first from 1936 to 1938, then from 1953 to 1965, his longest absence from the concert stage, and again in 1969–74 and 1983–85. Altogether, he was away from the public for a long 21 years. That didn’t prevent him from becoming both a celebrity and one of the most interesting pianists of the century. Vera Gornostayeva was practically unknown in the West, even though she was highly regarded by first the Soviet and then the Russian musical community as a very talented and “thinking” musician. She was also born on October 1st, in 1929, in Moscow. She studied with Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatory and then taught there for 50 years. One of her pupils, Vassily Primakov, was instrumental in publishing Gornostayeva’s CDs and bringing her art to the […]
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2017-08-16 14:03:12
We regret to report the death of Pavel Egorov, head of piano at the St Petersburg Conervatoire and an international authority on Schumann. He has been suffering from cancer for some time. Boris Bloch writes: Pavel Egorov was my classmate not only at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory but also a fellow student of Tatjana Nikolaeva in the first two years of our studies there. Pavel and I were also united in our youthful romantic love and affection for the music of Robert Schumann, competition of whose memory he had won in 1974. I was less successful having received only a finalist diploma in the previous edition of 1969. I guess we were the Davidsbündler-brothers. And now one of us has gone on a journry of no return. Dear brother, before it will be my turn to go I will remain faithful to your memory and our common goals and ideals. […]
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