Philharmonia Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov / Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1

Denis Kozhukhin

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Reviews

May 31st, 2014

“His was a serious, direct approach to the music, conveyed with seemingly effortless virtuosity and beauty of tone. In the more reflective passages of the first movement his playing had a distinctive refined elegance and it was refreshing to hear this everyday music played with such care and respect, though throughout there was an underlying strength. The slow movement was simply and straightforwardly delivered, but it had an inward, yearning quality that was touching, and there was some scintillating, quicksilver playing in the finale.”
Classical Source, May 2014

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That dense sound of the inspired strings accompanied the exposition of the first theme of Rachmaninov’s concerto, in which Kozhukhin shone both technically (impeccable pulsation, even in the fastest passages of the Adagio sostenuto) and expressively, with intense phrasing in the extreme movements and articulated by a subtle rubato in the interlude while delicate according to the moment, in an outstanding performance. That he also knows how to use the keyboard as a means of communicating the most intimate sensations was evident in the very delicate way he phrased the propina (with an infinite number of dynamic gradations below the piano) “In the church”, the last of the pieces from Tchaikovsky’s Album of his youth.

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