Gold Medalist: Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Featuring

Vadym Kholodenko
Igor Stravinsky
Franz Liszt

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Performer Biography

Vadym Kholodenko composed the cadenza for Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, himself on the plane from Moscow to the competition.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Igor Stravinsky, the composer of Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka, declared that music is "by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all."

Performer Biography

Vadym Kholodenko, the pianist on this album, was the Gold Medalist at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Composition History

Stravinsky arranged Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka for his friend, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, intending it as a pianistic interpretation of the ballet rather than a direct transcription.

Composition History

Franz Liszt's Transcendental Études underwent two major revisions before their final publication in 1852, making them more manageable for performers.

Cultural Impact

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where this album's performer won, was founded to commemorate Van Cliburn's historic 1958 victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.