August 1st, 2015
Having debuted with the orchestra on tour in Buenos Aires in July, Kozhukhin returns to the West Eastern Divan Orchestra this month to perform at the Salzburg Festival on 13 August. Performing under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, Kozhukhin will be the soloist in Pierre Boulez Sur Incises at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
See the festival website for more information and tickets.
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.”
