Denis Kozhukhin performs in Vicenza

Denis Kozhukhin

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BRAHMS 3 Intermezzi op.117

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News

March 5th, 2013

Last month, Denis Kozhukhin stepped in for a cancellation at the Teatro Comunale in Vicenza. Kozhukhin’s recital, which included works by Schubert, Ligeti, Prokofiev and Haydn, was greeted with huge enthusiasm from the audience, who remembered Kozhukhin as the “Enfant Prodige” who performed in Vicenza in 1996, at the age of 10. Kozhukhin’s performance also received rapturous reviews from the press with Il Giornale di Vicenza describing him as “a young pianist with explosive energy, an extraordinary technique and a profound musicality… never-ending applause and three encores.”

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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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