DUO KORANYI-KOZHUKHIN, violoncelle-piano
Duo Koranyi-Kozhukhin
Jakob Koranyi, violoncelle
Denis Kozhukhin, piano
Arcadia Musica présente le duo Koranyi-Kozhukhin, unissant deux de ses meilleurs jeunes musiciens, qui sont aussi deux amis, complices dans leur passion et exigence musicales.
Jakob Koranyi, Suédois de 26 ans, 2nd Prix du Concours Rostropovitch et Prix de la Meilleurs Interprétation du Concerto op.107 de Shostakovitch par la Fondation Rostropovitch, est probablement un des jeunes violoncellistes les plus impressionnants de sa génération. Sa sonorité puissante et la profondeur de son jeu musical sont remarquables. Formé à l’Institut de Musique Edsberg avec Torleif Thedéen, au Northern Royal College of Music avec Ralph Kirshbaum et à la Musikhochschule de Cologne avec Frans Helmerson, Jakob Koranyi a été, comme Denis Kozhukhin auparavant, lauréat du Prix d'Honneur de l’Académie de Verbier en 2006 et réinvité au Festival de Verbier à deux reprises, il a aussi été sélectionné récemment pour une résidence de 3 ans dans la Société de Musique de Chambre de Lincoln Center à New York.
Le pianiste Denis Kozhukhin, Russe de 23 ans (1er Prix du Vendome Prize, 3e Prix du Concours de Leeds 2006, 1er Prix Concours d'Andorre Alicia Delarrocha 2002...) se perfectionne actuellement à l’Académie du Lac de Côme auprès de grands maîtres du piano, après s’être formé auprès de Dimitri Bashkirov à l’École Supérieure de Musique Reina Sofia de Madrid, où il s’est vu remettre par la Reine elle-même trois prix le distinguant meilleur soliste et meilleur chambriste à deux reprises. Denis exprime, à travers un répertoire pianistique et chambriste déjà très vaste, pas seulement un jeu extrêmement virtuose mais aussi une sensibilité absolument remarquable et inspirante.
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"An Unforgettable Concert"
A concert where not a minute felt unneeded. Two runaway hours, but they feel like two unusually well spent hours of one’s life. This is the sum of the concert with Jakob Koranyi, cello, and Denis Koshukhin, piano.The two young soloists, who soon will enter upon larger scenes than the presbytery of Iggesund’s church, lift a arduous and rather unconventional program to a singular musical experience.
Debussy, Britten, Ligeti and Brahms, not exactly the usual audience pleasers. But the listener, who expects coolness and experimental tests have come to the wrong concert. Here passion and affection counts in every bar, from the modernist Ligeti to the romantic Brahms. The opening sonatas for cello and piano (Debussy and Britten) are given the same devoted interpretation. You immediately notices the conciseness and the drive from both of the soloists. A precise force where nothing of Britten’s intellectual eloquence or Debussy’s emotionality is lost. Debussy hovers between stoical temperance and Latin heat and you are spirited away by the maturity in expression and authority of the interpretation by both of theese young men. Yes, they do not neglect anything, all of Britten’s dynamic millimeter size changes, a piece, which is a micro cosmos of musical richness. Full of fantastic details, lyric (a fantastic elegy), dramatic in the dialog between cello and piano and with a frenzy in the final, which feels absolutely un-Brittish. Short, and most intensive are two solo pieces by György Ligeti, a small cello sonata full of musical memories and blinkings and a piano etude, in diabolic tempo, “L’escalier du diable”, Paganini may be excused, here he is outplayed by Koshukhin with the high and rapid sound of the Bolin grand piano. Two brilliant presentations, maybe Koranyi is the one who is capable of broader emotional experession. A total absence of triviality characterizes Jakob Koranyi’s and Denis Koshukhin’s performances. They play as if every bar would be the last one, with an enthusiasm which takes the audience’s and reviewer’s breaths away. But this is the feeling of real art. A daring, intense and steeply expressive programme, beautifully finished with a Brahms sonata. Which is as wise as it is necessary. A highly romantic finale, passionately bright and with Brahms’ special warmth. The latter is charmed out by Kozhukhin’s radiant piano musicality, here you hear the very best of the romantic music, its credo. Musical delight, first rate technique and total insight, indeed the ovations did not wish to come to an end this Tuesday evening. An unforgettable concert.
Jan-Olov Nyström - Translation (by Ingmar Höglund) of the review in Hudiksvalls Tidning of Jacob Koranyi’s and Denis Koshukhin’s concert in Iggesund’s church, July 7, 2009 during the Musik vid Dellen week.
