NRD Kultur: album review of “Ravel & Gershwin Concertos”

Denis Kozhukhin

Next Concerts

Feb 29, 2020

Berlin, Germany - Pierre Boulez Saal

Boulez Ensemble
Francois-Xavier Roth conductor

Boulez: Flute Sonata
Boulez: Eclat/Multiples for orchestra

Mar 5, 2020

Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS - De Doelen

Rotterdam Philharmonic
Vasily Petrenko conductor

Rachmaninov: Paganini Variations

Features

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).

Video

Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

“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.”

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