Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR cond. Shokakhimov

Denis Kozhukhin

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November 30th, 2015

“… it’s as if the young piano star Denis Kozhukhin was specifically created to be a sensitive interpreter of Rachmaninov.

[Kozhukhin] gave the astounding impression that the virtuoso piece had played itself. Under his hands, the Steinway piano wasn’t pushed to its limits, but instead displayed the extraordinary virtuosity of this exceptional pianist, playing from memory and bent over the keyboard, conveying the most tender emotions with concentrated energy.”
Augsburger Allgemeine, December 2015

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Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

“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.”

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