City of London Festival / Mussorgsky

Denis Kozhukhin

Next Concerts

Apr 13, 2023

Borusan Phil

Istanbul, TURKEY - Zorlu Performance and Art Center (Turckcell Stage)

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op. 15

w/ Lina González-Granados, conductor

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Apr 20, 2023

Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck

Innsbruck, AUSTRIA - Innsbruck Congress Hall (Saal Tirol)

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major

w/ Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck
Kerem Hassan, conductor

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Reviews

July 25th, 2012

“Kozhukhin’s intensity was expressed through colour and wit and a keen sense of pacing, particularly in the closing piece, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. He brought out the humour in the ‘Ballad of the Unhatched Chicks’ unexpected stops and starts, and the wicked glints in ‘The Hut on Fowl’s Legs’. The final picture, the ‘Great Gate of Kiev’, pushes some pianists beyond their limit. But in Kozhukhin’s hands it rose to the final peroration with magnificent, unforced grandeur.”
The Daily Telegraph, July 2012

Video

Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

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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