September 4th, 2013
This month, Denis Kozhukhin will make his debut at the Wigmore Hall. On 21 September, Kozhukhin will open his recital with Haydn’s Sonata in F Major HB 16/23, followed by Franck Prélude, chorale et fugue and Schubert’s Four Impromptus, op.90. The second half of the concert will feature Hindemith’s Piano Sonata No.3 and Brahms 7 Fantasias, Op.116. Get tickets & more info
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.”
