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...difficult to imagine that the Evgeny Kissin who performed to a packed audience at Symphony Hall the other night was the same pianist who wowed audiences 17 years ago at the age of 12 with his performances of the Chopin concerti. Child prodigies burn out, fail to live up to the impossible standards set for them and become unmarketable. Kissin, however, has emerged as an artist of incredible maturity who also happens to possess a technique of such polish and precision it makes one want to either practice 10 times harder or give up the piano entirely. Presented as part...
...playing later in the evening, the recital got off to a somewhat shaky start with Bach’s Toccata in C Major, BWV 564, originally for organ but transcribed for solo piano by Ferrucio Busoni. This is perhaps the closest we will ever get to hearing Kissin play Bach, and one could hear why he has not made unadulterated Bach a part of his performing repertoire. He is clearly most at home with the romantics, and even this romanticized version of Bach felt awkward and rigid. The opening prelude is marked quasi improvisandio, yet Kissin made it sound like...
...compositions (such as the Fantasy in C Major), it shares many of the features of other Schumann compositions from the same time period, namely capriciousness and extremity of emotions (from the heroic Eusebius to the introspective Florestan—the two characters of Schumann’s compositional personality). Kissin was at his best in the second movement “Aria,” his caressing tone working its magic in the acoustical splendor that is Symphony Hall. The fourth-movement “Finale” is Schumann at his most wildly inventive, and Kissin handled...
...Granite Bay, Calif. Maureen avowed that she "was a Republican before the President was," though her views often--and publicly--clashed with his. Just like Dad, Maureen tried her hand early on at TV and film (bit parts on The Partridge Family and in the Elvis Presley film Kissin' Cousins), then at politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married her third husband Dennis Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist, and in 1994, adopted a daughter Rita, now 16, Ugandan...
...something to be said for being able to put on a record and know instantly who's playing... Horowitz, Gilels, Serkin.... There are certainly pianists who can race down the keyboard at least as fast, and with more accuracy, but Horowitz had style. Who's the Horowitz today? Kissin maybe, but I can't really go there. Maybe Brendel, the more intellectual, is our Serkin. But I like to think I'm doing something different than what's been going on in concert halls for, say, the past 20 years