November 12th, 2013
On Friday 22 November, Denis Kozhukhin will step in to replace Yuja Wang for a concerto performance with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Kozhukhin will perform Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4 under the baton of Kristjan Järvi and the concert will take place at 8pm at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse. More info & tickets
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.”
