Denis Kozhukhin performs at the Klavierfest Ruhr

Denis Kozhukhin

Next Concerts

Jan 28, 2023

Vienna, AUSTRIA - Wiener Konzerthaus

LIGETI Piano Concerto

w/ ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

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Feb 03, 2023

Brussels, BELGIUM - Bozar

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos. 1,3,4

w/ Belgian National Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

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News

June 13th, 2011

Denis Kozhukhin will appear at the Klavierfest Ruhr on June 25 in a programme including Haydn, Brahms and Liszt. This will follow appearances at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano on June 17, where he will perform Rachmaninov Sonata No.1 and Trio No.2 (with Renaud Capuçon and Yan Levionnois), and at the newly established Klavierfieber Festival in Berlin, on June 21 and 22.

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Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

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That dense sound of the inspired strings accompanied the exposition of the first theme of Rachmaninov’s concerto, in which Kozhukhin shone both technically (impeccable pulsation, even in the fastest passages of the Adagio sostenuto) and expressively, with intense phrasing in the extreme movements and articulated by a subtle rubato in the interlude while delicate according to the moment, in an outstanding performance. That he also knows how to use the keyboard as a means of communicating the most intimate sensations was evident in the very delicate way he phrased the propina (with an infinite number of dynamic gradations below the piano) “In the church”, the last of the pieces from Tchaikovsky’s Album of his youth.

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