Browse: Vadym Kholodenko (piano)

This is an intriguing sequence where each work benefits from illumination by its programme neighbours. Most definitely recommended. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

The barnstorming theme is set out with pointed determination, only to immediately fall away in a shadow of itself. Kholodenko’s carefully contoured opener is followed by five variations that... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

The undoubted primus inter pares star of the collection is the Italian-American virtuoso Antonio Pompa-Baldi. I would buy this release just to hear him in the Andante appassionato by the Chilean... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2023 More…

Impossible, of course, to match the varied colours of soloists, choir and orchestra, but Vadym Kholodenko manages eloquently with the resources at his fingertips, displaying impressive agility... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There's steely-fingered technique aplenty but the 2013 Van Cliburn Gold winner brings a heaviness, dulling Grieg's ethereal Adagio and Saint-Saëns fly-away moments. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…

Personality, thought Stravinsky, was Prokofiev’s strongest quality. Vadym Kholodenko has plenty of it…Though his playing is always lucid, never muddy, Kholodenko looks at these three works through... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

[Op. 37] whatever can be done to bring out the sonata’s beauty and variety, along with genuine feeling, Kholodenko does it. He has found the key to this much-maligned piece...this disc came as... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Kholodenko’s playing has wonderful cleanness and precision, and no matter how light his touch you are always aware of his reserves of power. He also knows how to tease out the elusive qualities... — International Piano, September 2020 More…