Next Concerts

May 20, 2025

Tenerife Auditorio

Tenerife, Spain

Liszt: La lugubre gondola, S.200/1
Liszt: Unstern – Sinistre – Disastro, S.208
Liszt: Nuages gris, S.199
Liszt: Am Grabe Richard Wagners, S.135
Ligeti: Étude No. 13, L’escalier du diable (Book 2)
Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, S.173/3
Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178

Venue: Auditorio de Tenerife, Spain

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Jun 12, 2025

Boulez Saal with Yulia Deyneka

Berlin, Germany

Roslawez: Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1
Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Stravinsky: Élégie for Solo Viola
Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 147

Venue: Boulez Saal, Berlin

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Reviews

December 20th, 2017

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. van Zweden

“ … Kozhukhin largely played with such innate authority, leonine command and poised yet unsentimental lyricism that he didn’t seem to be “interpreting” the music at all. Rachmaninoff’s long-limbed melodies were rendered with a supple poetic touch and natural empathy as much as Kozhukhin’s clarity and eruptive dynamism vaulted through the passages of breakout virtuosity.
The performance culminated in an exhilarating finale that led up to the final bars with mounting inexorability–the movement’s big tune given with rich resplendence in its final flowering and the race to the coda thrillingly played by Kozhukhin, van Zweden and the orchestra with their soloist every step of the way.
This was one of the rare times when the instant cheers and standing ovation were well deserved. The applause recalled the pianist back to the stage until he obliged with an encore–“La fille aux cheveux de lin” (The girl with the flaxen hair) from Book I of Debussy’s Preludes, rendered with limpid delicacy”

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