European concerts with the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig

Denis Kozhukhin

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September 8th, 2016

Denis Kozhukhin joins the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kristjan Järvi for a series of concerts this month, beginning at Meran’s Kurhaus on 9 September 2016.

Kozhukhin and the orchestra perform Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4, part of a programme that also includes Steve Reich Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards and Schumann Symphony No.4. Later in the month, Kozhukhin and the orchestra perform at the Sala Radio in Bucharest on 27 September, the Suhl Congress Centrum on 1 October and the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 2 October.

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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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