USA tour with St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Denis Kozhukhin

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January 29th, 2014

This month, Denis Kozhukhin will be the soloist for the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s major tour of the USA with conductors Yuri Temirkanov and Nikolai Alexeev. Kozhukhin will perform Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 at ten different venues, including Carnegie Hall, New York (13 February), Davies Hall, San Francisco (2 March) and Bellas Artes, Mexico City (9 March). On 26 March, Kozhukhin will return to the orchestra to perform the same concerto under the baton of Temirkanov in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.

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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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