Work: Piano Sonata no. 16 in G major, Op.31 no.1

Former Cliburn winner Vadym Kholodenko returns to Singapore in mesmerising and thrilling form.

Although this was ostensibly a recital featuring the music of two composers, a third, much less venerable one, also managed to leave his mark on proceedings. The figure in question is Carl Czerny, the one-time pupil of Beethoven’s whose banal piano studies proved to be the springboard for the first of Claude Debussy’s own, far more inventive forays into the genre.

Nicht nur der Pianist, auch Beethoven ging mit diesen vier Sonaten neue Wege.