June 7th, 2018
NDR Kultur recently review Denis Kozhukhin’s new album “Ravel & Gershwin Concertos” as follows:
“Kozhukhin and the orchestra create […] a delightful liveliness“
“Unbelievable how that works“
„[…] playful, humerous, fanciful and unrestrainedly solemn“
„The Old and the New World around 1930: stylistically confidently captured – virtuosically performed!”
The full review can be accessed here (in German).
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.”
