Pentatone Artist of the Season January – June 2016 - Denis Kozhukhin

Denis Kozhukhin

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February 2nd, 2016

Pentatone Artist of the Season January – June 2016

Having recently signed an exclusive contract with Dutch label Pentatone, Kozhukhin’s debut recording with them is due to be released in early April 2016. This recording will feature Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor and Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, which Kozhukhin recorded together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Vassily Sinaisky.

Learn more about the announcement of Denis Kozhukhin as Pentatone’s Artist of the Season here. The exclusive ‘Artist of the Season Diary’, filmed during the recording period for his upcoming disc can be viewed below. The video diary gives an insight both into the recording process and Kozhukhin’s thoughts on the pieces. Denis Kozhukhin’s debut recording with Pentatone can be pre-ordered here.

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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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