September 2nd, 2013
LUTOSLAWSKI: Variations for 2 Pianos on a Theme by Paganini
ADLER: Colours of Dust Israeli premiere (co-commission with the JCMF Berlin 2013)
ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 84
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.”
