NEW YORK — Pianist Evgeny Kissin speaks many languages, but to audiences around the world he is best known — and in some circles, revered — for his ability to articulate, with precision, the greatest ...
Evgeny Kissin was the kind of child prodigy who made people believe in the possibility of a Mozart. Before he was 10, students and teachers at the Gnessin School for Gifted Children in Moscow ...
“Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives,” the festival’s artistic director said. By Javier C. Hernández Teodor Currentzis and the ensemble ...
Evgeny Kissin, the Russian-born pianist, began his recital at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night with Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata. An electric current ran through the opening measures. Right through ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Evgeny Kissin always attracts a particular kind of audience, and the immaculately coiffed figure who arrived at the ...
A recital by Evgeny Kissin in Carnegie Hall is a regular event—and “event” is the right word. A Kissin recital is an event because of the stage seating (the overflow crowd on the stage). But also ...
LONDON — Classical pianist Evgeny Kissin says he wrote his book, “Memoirs and Reflections” because over the course of many interviews he has constantly been asked the same questions. Ironically, now ...
After hearing so many classical warhorses played badly so many times, reviewer Tom Manoff has found a recording that makes Mussorgsky's Pictures of an Exhibition come alive again. It features pianist ...