Return to the Intonations Festival, Berlin

Denis Kozhukhin

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April 19th, 2016

Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Intonations Festival in Berlin this month, giving a series of three concerts from 19 to 21 April 2016 at the Jewish Museum. For the first concert, Kozhukhin is joined by Emmanuel Pahud (flute) and Danele Damiano (bassoon) to perform Beethoven Piano Trio with Flute and Bassoon WoO 37, followed by Martinů Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano with Pahud and cellist Timothy Park.

The second concert sees Kozhukhin performing Busoni Fantasia Contrappuntisticawith Kirill Gerstein (piano), Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale: Suite with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Pascal Moraguès (clarinet), after which he rejoins Gerstein to perform Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op.45. In the final recital, Kozhukhin will be joined by Michael Barenboim (violin) in a performance of Schönberg Fantasy for violin and piano, Op.47.

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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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