Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire / Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 / John Axelrod

Denis Kozhukhin

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April 19th, 2013

“Fully involved, showing a stunning techinque and staggering musicality, Denis Kozhukhin seems to have a thousand fingers. We were constantly amazed to see the ease with which such a performance was delivered to us, and humbled at the idea of knowing the level of self-sacrifice that this performance required… The encore only reinforced this feeling, the young Russian flaunting the whole range of his refinement and virtuosity”.

Le Courrier de l’Ouest, April 2013

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“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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