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
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
Features
May 24th, 2022
For ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, Denis Kozhukhin turns a piano into an orchestra
“For me, the piano is an instrument with infinite possibility, sound, force, colors, imitation. It’s all about imagination, so all the ideas are first born in your head, in your ears.”
“We work all our lives, and we study like crazy for perfection. But what is perfection in music? What is perfection in life? Of course, you can play a concert without hitting a single wrong note, and I really admire people who can do that. It’s an achievement, of course, and this is what we all aim for. Obviously, if you have too many wrong notes, it can kind of destroy the whole picture. You can go to concerts and sit there for two hours and not hear a wrong note, but it can be boring and empty. So, this thing of playing wrong notes, it’s really overjudged sometimes, and it shouldn’t become an obsession.”