International Piano Series / Haydn, Brahms, Liszt, Bartók

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

October 14th, 2015

“Unshowily but grippingly, he dispatched two Haydn sonatas and Bartók’s brilliantly condensed Out of Doors pieces, and ventured the high Romantic contrast of Liszt’s Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude. There was Brahms and encore Scarlatti, too – Kozhukhin ranged over the keyboard centuries like a duke displaying prized possessions.”
Sunday Times, October 2015

“Denis Kozhukhin … played [two Haydn sonatas] with brilliance, sensitivity and wit. His subtle and dynamic approach was a joy … The Liszt was altogether exceptional – luxuriant and evocative, ideally contemplative, ravishing the senses … Denis Kozhukhin is simply one of the best pianists around.”
Classical Source, October 2015

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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