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Pianist Andrey Denisenko has already won numerous awards at a young age. In 2024, he will present his debut album Per aspera ad astra. He can be heard on two evenings in Berlin.
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Andrey Denisenko
Per aspera ad astra - or: it's not an easy path from the earth to the stars is the title of young, multi-award-winning pianist Andrey Denisenko's debut album, in which he not only uses the example of two Romantic artists to recreate the much-travelled path of creative artists, but has also chosen a rocky path for himself.
It begins with an exploration: the "Etude" for the left hand, in which Johannes Brahms grapples with the changing force fields of Bach's solo chaconne - the same hyper-self-critical doubter who, after his highly symbolic Opus 111, had actually wanted to say nothing more before he realised that the journey was not yet over - and in this discovery invented the genre of the "late piano pieces", so to speak, in which someone who has gone through darkness is allowed to do anything.
The aspera of the last conventions have been overcome, here the view is free! The Seven Fantasies op. 116 are followed by the eight Kreisleriana op. 16 by the "Brahms discoverer" Robert Schumann, a grandiose rollercoaster ride through all the emotions that can be described with the means of earthly instruments within the boundaries of a work and at the same time a structure that shakes up these very boundaries: At the end, it takes a leisurely trot back out into the night, towards a new round in the infinite game of creation.
In 2017, Andrey Denisenko completed his studies at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov with top marks. The young pianist then moved to Germany to continue his training with Anna Vinnitskaya at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. The first successes were not long in coming. In the same year, he received a scholarship from "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now" scholarship. Today, Denisenko performs regularly in renowned concert halls.
Per aspera ad astra
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
bearb. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Chaconne aus der Partita Nr. 2 d-Moll für Violine solo,
bearb. für Klavier, linke Hand
Johannes Brahms
7 Fantasien op. 116
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kreisleriana op. 16
Andrey Denisenko, Klavier
