Sunny Strauss on Verbier's slopes

By Mark Valencia, 23 July 2017

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“a delicious song without words that was perfumed with hints of the operas to come”

Reviewed at Eglise de Verbier, Verbier on 22 July 2017

Schubert, Rondo Brilliante for piano and violin in B minor, D.895

Beethoven, Violin Sonata no. 7 in C minor, Op.30 no.2

Strauss R., Sonata for violin and piano in E flat major, Op.18

Renaud Capuçon, Violin

Denis Kozhukhin, Piano

“Iron Man” Kozhukhin dominates in Prokofiev

Néstor Castiglione, 6th August

Denis Kozhukhin crushes Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, but guest conductor Ryan Bancroft is overwhelmed in Shostakovich 10.

***11

A suite of delights: Jörg Widmann and Lisa Batiashvili in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 10th April

A varied programme of chamber music charms the Berlin Phil, featuring works by Widmann and a premiere by young talent Tsotne Zedginidze.

****1

Vasily Petrenko delivers an Elgar 2 of rare distinction with the RPO

Alexander Hall, 27th March

Romanticism is the obvious link between Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and Elgar's Second Symphony in this absorbing evening's entertainment supplied by Denis Kozhukhin, the RPO and its Music Director, Vasily Petrenko.

****1

Passionately committed Brahms from Janine Jansen and friends

Nick Boston, 21st December

Timothy Ridout, Daniel Blendulf and Denis Kozhukin join the Dutch violinist for intensely passionate performances of Brahms chamber works.

*****

Extrovert Rachmaninov from Kozhukhin and the Belgrade Philharmonic

Peter Connors, 6th October

In addition to Rachmaninov, the Belgrade Philharmonic and Jaume Santonja play Stevan Hrstić's atmospheric In the Countryside and excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

****1

Ice but not much fire from Hannu Lintu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Hall, 17th February

Nothing quite ordinary or indeed comforting here, the heavy mixture of acid colouring in Lindberg, Ustvolskaya and Stravinsky not tempered by any opulence in Rachmaninov.

***11

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Sunny Strauss on Verbier's slopes from Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin