October 15th, 2015
Denis Kozhukhin, having recently signed an exclusive recording contract with Pentatone, enters the studio for his debut recording with the label in October 2015. Kozhukhin records Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor alongside the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Vassily Sinaisky. The recording is due for release in 2016.
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.”
