Next Concerts
May 30, 2022
In Classica Festival – Recital
Dubai, UAE - Opera House Dubai
Schumann – Kinderszenen op. 15
Shor – Childhood memories
Debussy – Children’s corner
Tchaikovsky – Album for the Youth
Jun 02, 2022
Kristiansand Symphony
Kristiansand, Norway - Kristiansand Concert Hall
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3
w/ Kristiansand Symphony
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Reviews
November 25th, 2014
Houston Symphony Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša / Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2
“Kozhukhin is not only a genius musician, but also a brilliant performer. To watch him play is to be consumed by the music yourself in a totalizing wave. Shifts from ardent lines to chords ablaze with the disharmony that made this concerto so controversial at the beginning of the century were surprisingly fluid. Kozhukhin, rising from his bench to pull chords off the keyboard, shaking hair loose from a small pony tail, would, in an unbroken turn, become small against the piano, hunching his back as if in line with a poignant decrescendo.
In an act of magnanimity, Kozhukhin gave in to the audience’s standing ovation and calls for an encore. He chose an arrangement of Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice. It should have been a stark change from the explosive concerto, but, profoundly, it felt like a demurely fitting resolution… To say it was breathtaking is an understatement.”
Bachtrack, October 2014