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In the relatively recent past, Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky has featured impressively as an RSNO guest in concertos by two of his countrymen (Rachmaninov and Prokofiev). I was therefore very much looking forward to hearing him in the more intimate, less gladiatorial setting of an Edinburgh International Festival morning Queen’s Hall recital.

Vadym Kholodenko ist ein Klangmagier: sein Spiel war äußerst sprechend, bilderreich, mit blühender Agogik erzählend-plastisch und dabei unprätentiös: große Klavierkunst!