Evgeny Kissin displays a glowing touch at the Santa Cecilia, Rome

Evgeny Kissin

By Alissa Balocco, 24 February 2023

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“permeated with shades of colour, drawing out its hypnotic symbolism”

Reviewed at Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 22 February 2023

Bach, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Mozart, Piano Sonata no. 9 in D major, K311 (K284c)

Chopin, Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, Op.31

Rachmaninov, Lilacs (Siren'), Op.21 no.5

Rachmaninov, Prelude in A minor, Op.32 no.8

Rachmaninov, Prelude in G flat major, Op.23 no.10

Rachmaninov, Etudes-tableaux, Op.39 (selection)

Rachmaninov, Cinq Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op.3: Mélodie in E major

Rachmaninov, Cinq Morceaux de fantasie, Op.3: Sérénade in B flat minor

Rachmaninov, Cinq Morceaux de fantasie, Op.3: Prelude in C sharp minor

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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Alissa Balocco

Born and raised in Rome, Alissa is an Italian pianist, musicologist and journalist. She graduated at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and studied Musicology at University La Sapienza. She is now taking a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communication at Luiss University and her articles have been published on Music.it, ZetaLuiss and HuffingtonPost. Alissa loves Debussy but, if she could, she would like to be reborn as a Mahler symphony. She can’t live without theatre although her friends would say she obsesses even more about her unconditional love for Amy Winehouse and Soul music.