A remarkable feat of memorisation – a whole orchestra and no music! – made for an illuminating and exciting introduction to the Soviet composer's “victory” symphony.
In the year of the centenary of Claude Debussy's death, pianist Denis Kozhukhin gave a heady and colourful performance of music by Debussy and George Gerswhin, a composer deeply influenced by his French counterpart.
Sir Simon Rattle steers the LSO through a sequence of Haydn’s most forward-looking pieces while Denis Kozhukhin, as a late stand-in, is immense in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto.
Denis Kozhukhin provided flowing intensity in Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto while Yuri Temirkanov crafted a polished Shostakovich 5 with the Philharmonia.
The Staatskapelle Berlin brought a showcase programme to the Berlin Philharmonie under chief conductor Daniel Barenboim and made a case for themselves as one of the best bands performing today.
Russian pianist Kozhukhin's performance of Rachmininov's Fourth Piano Concerto is the highlight of the evening but Flor and NSO deliver satisfying Dvořák and Boydell.
A Liszt tone poem, a Prokofiev piano concerto, and a Dvořák symphony made for a high-octane CSO program with conductor Emmanuel Krivine and pianist Denis Kozhukhin.
Donald Runnicles in his farewell concert as Chief Conductor with the BBCSSO went out in style with a golden Brahms Second Piano Concerto and a glorious account of Mahler’s First Symphony.
The energising figure of Vladimir Ashkenazy presided over this all-Russian programme in a concert that showcased the prodigious gifts of Denis Kozhukhin.
Kozhukhin stamped his authority and musicality on this lunchtime recital from the opening notes of the Haydn Sonata to the final fleeting phrase of his second encore.
Neither Rachmaninov's music nor the precision and perfection of the performance lose any of their power, vigor, brilliance and magic with a change from the traditional concert perspective.
The Hallé was on top form in Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Sibelius with inspiring conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, dazzling pianist Denis Kozhukhin and superb orchestral soloists.
Thanks to wild talent of soloist and conductor, a strikingly new take on some familiar work and a standout concert in Houston Symphony's season so far.
The fascinating Rest is Noise festival at Southbank Centre has now reached its mid-point, with the focus on music created out of oppression and war. In Friday night’s chamber concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall two pieces written in the most straitened circumstances during the Second World War were presented: Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio, a haunting lament for the tragic victims of the war and conflict in general, and Messiaen’s extraordinary Quatuor pour la fin du temps (“Quartet for the End of Time”), composed and premièred in a German prisoner of war camp.
Primer concierto de la nueva temporada de Ibermúsica, la cual, entre gran expectación, arrancaba con una de las mejores formaciones orquestales, la London Symphony Orchestra, y Szeps-Znaider al frente del conjunto y del pianista Dennis Kozhukhin.
Resultaría vano enumerar los elogios por insuficientes, así como resaltar a una sección por encima de las demás. La London Philharmonic fue un todo vibrante, una fuerza sobrehumana que supo condensar la emoción de una vida en cuatro movimientos.
Les amoureux de Prokofiev sont servis : le compositeur fête aujourd’hui ses 125 ans ! Pour l’occasion, l’orchestre du théâtre Mariinsky, avec à sa tête Valery Gergiev, vient à Moscou souffler les premières bougies d’un « Marathon Prokofiev » chronologique qui se poursuivra en parallèle à Moscou et Saint-Pétersbourg.
S’il est une chose qui caractérise Prokofiev, c’est bien son imagination débordante. Les cinq premières sonates pour piano nous le prouvent, avec les pianistes Daniil Trifonov ,Katia Skanavi, Ilya Rashkovskiy et Denis Kozhukhin.
