PROKOFIEV’S THREE GREAT PIANO SONATAS COMPOSEDDURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR• ‘Dynamite, explosive and volatile, phenomenal… performance of such rare quality’ – these are just some of the superlatives used to describe Denis Kozhukhin’sProkofiev interpretations. His is a name to watch out for.• Debut recording from a young Russian pianist who wowed the public and critics with his recent Prokofiev piano concerto cycle with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.• He embarks upon a major tour recital to Japan in January, playing repertoire that includes the complete Prokofiev piano sonatas.• In May 2013 he will perform Sonatas 6–8 at the South Bank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival.• He is now in demand with many leading orchestras.• Denis Kozhukhin won the coveted first prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2010.• ‘This was remarkable; a performance of such rare quality it is difficult to light on vocabulary that might define the experience. There could be some mileage in recounting the audience’s stunned reaction as Kozhukhin wrestled with and overcame passage after furious passage, gathering tension as he went by virtue of the sheer physical strain required to realise the notes Prokofiev put on the page.’ The Scotsman – review of Kozhukhin’s performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no.2.• ‘The performance was dynamite: explosive and volatile, with phenomenal playing from Kozhukhin, but all within a lucidly defined context and structure.’ Herald, Scotland (review of the same performance).

• Wykonawca Kozhukhin Denis
• Data premiery 2012-11-01
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