Vadym Kholodenko – Scriabin: Preludes, Etudes & Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

It’s on a big Fazioli piano, recorded in a public concert in 2017, that Vadym Kholodenko – gold medallist at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competiton – offers us a journey through the fascinating, sometimes unsettling, always vivid, world of Scriabin. The programme follows the compositions in chronological order: we start with some harmonically almost “well-behaved” works, which still bear the marks of Chopin and Rachmaninov, moving gradually towards total liberation from any audible tonality in the form of Vers la flamme from 1914 – one of Scriabin’s last pieces – a hair-raising firework display on the piano in the form of an inexorable, almost orgasmic, crescendo. Between these two poles, Kholodenko offers several series of Preludes and Études, two Sonatas – the 4th from 1903 and the 5th from 1907, representing the transition in the composer’s style – and isolated piece with evocative titles such as the Poème tragiqueand the Poème satanique. It’s a fine journey, at the end of which the listener will feel both full and emptied-out!

Tracklist:
1-01. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 1. Maestoso, in C Major (03:15)
1-02. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 2. Allegro (00:48)
1-03. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 3. Andante, in G Major (01:10)
1-04. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 4. Allegro, in E Minor (01:02)
1-05. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 5. Allegro, in D Major (01:22)
1-06. Vadym Kholodenko – Six Preludes, Op. 13: No. 6. Presto, in B Minor (01:34)
1-07. Vadym Kholodenko – Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 1. Andante in B Major (02:45)
1-08. Vadym Kholodenko – Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 2. Allegro in G-Sharp Minor (01:15)
1-09. Vadym Kholodenko – Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 3. Andante cantabile, in G-Flat Major (02:34)
1-10. Vadym Kholodenko – Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 4. Lento, in E-Flat Minor (01:10)
1-11. Vadym Kholodenko – Five Preludes, Op. 16: No. 5. Allegretto, in F-Sharp Major (00:41)
1-12. Vadym Kholodenko – Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30: I. Andante (03:17)
1-13. Vadym Kholodenko – Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30: II. Prestissimo volando (05:13)
1-14. Vadym Kholodenko – Poeme tragique in B-Flat Major, Op. 34 (03:55)
1-15. Vadym Kholodenko – Poeme satanique in C Major, Op. 36 (06:00)
1-16. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 1. Presto, in D-Flat Major (01:57)
1-17. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 2. in F-Sharp Minor (01:19)
1-18. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 3. Prestissimo, in F-Sharp Major (01:03)
1-19. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 4. Andante, in F-Sharp Major (02:50)
1-20. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 5. Affanato, in C-Sharp Minor (02:57)
1-21. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 6. Esaltato, in D-Flat Major (02:17)
1-22. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 7. Agitato, in F Minor (01:05)
1-23. Vadym Kholodenko – Eight Etudes, Op. 42: No. 8. Allegro, in E-Flat Major (02:26)
1-24. Vadym Kholodenko – Sonata No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 53 (13:30)
1-25. Vadym Kholodenko – Vers la flamme, Op. 72 (06:22)