October 2nd, 2015
Denis Kozhukhin travels to Paris this month to give his debut performance with the Orchestre National de France at La Maison de Radio France 8 October 2015, conducted by Kazuki Yamada. Kozhukhin performs Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor.
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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.”
