PROKOFIEV’S THREE GREAT PIANO SONATAS COMPOSED

DURING 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’s

Prokofiev 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).

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