December 1st, 2016
Denis Kozhukhin returns to the Orchestre Philharmonie du Luxembourg on 16 December for a concert at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. He plays Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No.11 conducted by Andrew Manze.
Kozhukhin regularly performs the work of Haydn and in 2014 recorded his Piano Sonatas with Onyx Classics. Visit the audio page or Kozhukhin’s Soundcloud to listen to excerpts from the release.
Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor
“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.”
