BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra season finale with Dausgaard & Runnicles

Denis Kozhukhin

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May 4th, 2016

Denis Kozhukhin joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the closing concerts of their 2015/16 season from 12 May 2016. Kozhukhin first performs Brahms Piano Concerto No.1, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, at Glasgow City Halls and Edinburgh Usher Hall on 12 and 15 May, with the former concert being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. He then rejoins the orchestra at Glasgow City Halls on 19 May to perform Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in Donald Runnicles’ final concert as Chief Conductor of the orchestra.

Later in the month Kozhukhin returns to London for a recital with the Pavel Haas Quartet at Wigmore Hall.

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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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