Evgeny Kissin envoûte Verbier et tutoie les nuées

By Thomas Muller, 25 July 2018

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“la simplicité formelle, l’absence de pathos, le souci des nuances et l’attachement aux couleurs”

Reviewed at Salle des Combins, Verbier on 22 July 2018

Chopin, Nocturne no. 15 in F minor, Op.55 no.1

Chopin, Nocturne no. 12 in G major, Op.37 no.2

Chopin, Nocturne no. 18 in E major, Op.62 no.2

Schumann, Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor, Op.14

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 1: Danseuses de Delphes

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 5: Les Collines d'Anacapri

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 7: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 8: La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 9: La sérénade interrompue

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 10: La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 2 no. 6: Général Lavine - eccentric

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 2 no. 12: Feux d'artifice

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 4 in F sharp major, Op.30

Evgeny Kissin, Piano

A Evgeny Kissin tour de force in Boston

Kevin Wells, 25th April

Andrey Boreyko makes an impressive debut with the Boston Symphony, where Evgeny Kissin performs in not one, but two piano concertos.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

Evgeny Kissin and friends explore Shostakovich at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 31st May

A chamber programme of Shostakovich’s private idioms and public masks

****1

From Bach to Shostakovich, Evgeny Kissin a commanding force

Sam Jacobson, 7th May

Anchored by the piano music of Shostakovich, Evgeny Kissin’s Cleveland recital also explores works of Bach and Chopin.

****1

You Want it Darker? Evgeny Kissin’s dark-hued San Francisco recital

Michelle Assay, 20th April

Evgeny Kissin delights an overwhelmingly enthusiastic San Francisco audience with Chopin and Shostakovich, but his Bach is less convincing.

****1

Odd couple: Goerne and Kissin are mismatched in Cleveland recital

Cameron Kelsall, 14th April

A program of Schumann and Brahms fails to cohere due to fussy mannerisms and tentative playing.

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Thomas Muller

Podologue spécialisé en Education Thérapeutique du Patient et Diabétologie, chanteur, administrateur de choeur, fondateur d'orchestre et ancien hautboïste amateur, Thomas est passionné de musique et particulièrement vocale. Toujours sensible aux timbres des orchestres et de la capacité des musiciens de développer un chant musical qui provoque chez l'auditeur une émotion vraie, en dehors de tout intellectualisme.