June 24th, 2015
This July, Denis Kozhukhin makes his debut with the West Eastern Divan Orchestra. Kozhukhin will give two performances of Boulez Sur Incises under the baton of Daniel Barenboim at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires on 24 and 25 July. For more information and tickets, click here.
Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor
“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.”
