Evgeny Kissin - The Salzburg Recital
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ALBAN BERG / GEORGE GERSHWIN / FREDERIC CHOPIN / TIKHON KHRENNIKOV
Evgeny Kissin - The Salzburg Recital
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 14 October 2022
In August 2021, as the Salzburg Festival made a meticulously planned return to full capacity, Evgeny Kissin drew a sell-out crowd to the city's Grosses Festspielhaus. He treated his audience to a strikingly original programme of works by Berg, Chopin, Gershwin and, to the surprise of some, Khrennikov. A generous selection of encores featured Mendelssohn and Debussy, as well as more Chopin and one of Kissin's own compositions.
"Opening his programme with Alban Berg's emotionally intense Piano Sonata, Kissin delivers a powerfully controlled interpretation that places the greatest emphasis on structural cohesion and textural clarity, but at the same time tends to minimise the dramatic contrasts in mood and tempo indicated in the score...With its generous selection of works by Chopin, the second half of Kissin's recital finds the pianist on much more familiar ground." BBC Music
"It would be hard to imagine the previous Kissin briefly forsaking the classical gods for six minutes of Gershwin (the Three Preludes, mostly performed with aplomb)...There's only one word for it: socko!" The Times
Tracks:
Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Khrennikov: Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 5 - III
Khrennikov: Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 2
Gershwin: Preludes (3)
Chopin: Two Nocturnes Op. 62 - I
Chopin: Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
Chopin: Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36
Chopin: Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51
Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque'
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 3 (6), Op. 38 - VI. Andante con moto in A-Flat Major "Duetto"
Kissin: Four Piano Pieces, Op. 1 - II
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque - III. Clair de lune
