Denis Kozhukhin steps in to perform Verbier Festival recital

Denis Kozhukhin

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August 1st, 2012

On 3 August, award-winning young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin will step in to replace Yuja Wang for a recital at the Verbier Festival. The performance takes place at 7pm at the Salle des Combins with the following programme:

Haydn: Sonata No.59 in E flat major
Wagner (arr. Liszt): Tannhäuser Overture
Liszt: ‘Tarantella’ from Venezia e Napoli
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

This will be Kozhukhin’s third appearance at the festival since his debut in 2003 when he won the ‘Prix d’Honneur’ at the Verbier Festival Academy.

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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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