Brilliant Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and its conductor laureate, Andrew Davis, for a performance Wednesday of Brahms's First Piano Concerto that combined ...
Two great artists unite for what promises to be a dazzling, unforgettable evening of music. Evgeny Kissin’s musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his interpretations, and his extraordinary ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — There are people —myself among them — whose favorite Sunday afternoon concerts are either programs of art songs or solo piano music. German baritone Matthias Goerne and Russian-born ...
Classical music needs its glittering bodies as badly as any other branch of the performing arts, even if it has fewer such gods to send onstage than it once did. Thank goodness, then, for the likes of ...
"People will say I am Eusebius because I am so reserved, but I have some Florestan in me," says Evgeny Kissin. This is piano-speak, spoken by one of the greatest pianists of our time. Kissin, a ...
Brahms's beefy F minor Piano Sonata is better able than most works to withstand Kissin's shock-and-awe tactics, which nowadays seem determined to cow every piece into submission. There is little below ...
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Connoisseurs of the keyboard are ever ready to pounce on opportunities to catch the Russian superstar pianist Evgeny Kissin whenever he comes to town. Once word got around that Sunday’s recital at ...