September 6th, 2011
At the beginning of September, Denis Kozhukhin will return to Tel Aviv to give four performances at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival. Kozhukhin will also give a number of recitals across Europe this month, including appearances in Montreux, Tilburg, Tübingen and Lisbon, where he will perform works by Haydn, Brahms, Liszt and Rachmaninov.
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.”
