Prokofiev’s 125th anniversary

Denis Kozhukhin

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April 21st, 2016

Denis Kozhukhin joins Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra on 23 April as part of a week-long celebration in St Petersburg and Moscow of 125 years since the birth of Prokofiev.

At 11.30am on Saturday 23 April, Kozhukhin performs Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall under Maestro Gergiev and the Mariinsky. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos will also perform Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1.

At 3pm, Kozhukhin then performs Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.5 as part of a full sonata cycle alongside pianists Daniil Trifonov, Katya Skanavi and Iliya Rashkovsky – more details.

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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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