Denis Kozhukhin Hallé Orchestra debut and Mariinsky Christmas day concert

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December 13th, 2013

Denis Kozhukhin makes his debut with the Hallé orchestra on 11 December at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with a performance of Chopin Piano Concerto No.1. Two further performances take place on 12 and 15 December, and all are under the baton of Louis Langrée.

Kozhukhin’s Hallé performances follow several major debuts for the pianist this season, including at London’s Wigmore Hall and Zürich’s Tonhalle as well a first performance with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

On 25 December, Kozhukhin also gives his debut performance at the Mariinsky Theatre’s International Piano Festival in St Petersburg. The evening recital will include music by Haydn, Brahms, Schubert and Prokofiev.

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Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

“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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