Salzburg Festival with West Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim

Denis Kozhukhin

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News

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.

Video

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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