A GREAT PIANIST PLAYS LISZT.
Evgeny Kissin is a great pianist in the Russian tradition, with the sweeping style, generous tone and powerful but supple technique that marks an heir of Rachmaninoff. But for him, music is a language, and performance is about communicating meaning, and he can conjure a world of imagination – reflective and insightful – even as he dazzles with his astonishing mastery of the instrument.
Kissin makes his Australian debut with a virtuoso recital in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall playing Liszt – the 19th century’s great virtuoso-composer. From the intricate rippling of a Transcendental Etude to characteristic scenes of Venice and Naples, it’s a program to show Liszt’s brilliant and personal style – with the monumental Sonata in B minor at its heart.
“He is a born musician and a born great pianist.” Vladimir Ashkenazy
LISZT
Ricordanza (from Transcendental Etudes)
Sonata in B minor
Funérailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Vallée d’Obermann (from Years of Pilgrimage, Book I)
Venezia e Napoli, S162
In his Australian debut tour Evgeny Kissin also performs Grieg (22 September) and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 (24 September).
Evgeny Kissin in Recital
Venue: Concert Hall
Date: 15 September
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