A wonderfully empathetic and intelligent ‘piano whisperer’

Denis Kozhukhin

Next Concerts

Jan 28, 2023

Vienna, AUSTRIA - Wiener Konzerthaus

LIGETI Piano Concerto

w/ ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

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Feb 03, 2023

Brussels, BELGIUM - Bozar

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos. 1,3,4

w/ Belgian National Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

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Reviews

February 27th, 2015

Denis Kozhukhin proves himself here to be a wonderfully empathetic and intelligent ‘piano whisperer’. … Mere effects are not his thing, something which Kozhukhin makes clear from the very first note. His touch, his articulation – all is sensitively balanced and displays an almost crystalline precision. This is combined with an exceptionally discriminating and subtle use of pedal, which at most adds nuance to the sound colours of the Haydn sonatas’ finely woven motif progressions, but without blurring them… Denis Kozhukhin delights with his playing of Haydn where every detail is individually illuminated despite a variety of emphases and colours.

BR Klassik, February 2015

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Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

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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