Apr 13, 2020
w/ Janine Jansen violin
works by Beethoven, Strauss & Grieg
Apr 22, 2020
The Israeli Opera Orchestra
Gad Kadosh conductor
Grieg Piano Concerto
June 5th, 2017
Philharmonie Berlin, Großer Saal, Berlin, Germany
With Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor
“In Beethoven anniversary year, there will probably be many more “Moonlight”s, meaning the Sonata, than the real thing (though we’ve been lucky to see the crescent in close conjunction with Venus these past two nights). Not many pianists would dare to place it at the beginning of a programme. Denis Kozhukhin’s paradoxically no-nonsense poetry meant that a constant sense of motion culminated in the whirlwind of the finale, a steady move towards implosion mirrored in the piano transcription of Ravel’s La Valse at the end of the programme. In between came perfection in the form of pure song from Schubert and Grieg.”
