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Klavierkonzerte 1+3 (First Choice)
Klavierkonzerte 1+3 (First Choice)
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Few concerts in modern times have attained the legendary status of Evgeny Kissin s appearance with the Moscow Philharmonic and Dmitri Kitaenko on 27 March 1984, when the twelve-year-old Russian played Chopin s two piano concertos. His winning combination of rapt musical intensity, virtuoso technique and alluring tonal clarity had the critics grasping for superlatives. Here was no mere boy prodigy, but a fully-fledged artist of the first order.
The speed at which the young Kissin absorbed new music and reproduced it on the keyboard was remarkable, even by prodigy standards. Even in my earliest school years I would rush home and without having even taken off my shoes and coat head straight for the piano and start to play, he later recalled. By the age of two he was already picking out melodies he had heard on the piano, and just four years later played excerpts from Tchaikovsky s Nutcracker and Chopin s challenging Third Ballade as successful audition pieces to study with Anna Pavlovna Kantor, who would become the single greatest influence on his musical life.
Following the Chopin concert in 1984, Kissin became a national celebrity in his homeland, alongside his violinist contemporaries Vadim Repin and Maxim Vengerov, with whom he performed at the opening gala for the Eighth Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986. Two years later he gave a televised performance of Tchaikovsky s First Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan that was watched by millions around the globe and subsequently became his debut CD release for Deutsche Grammophon. This was followed by a celebrated solo recital in 1990 (also filmed), which included Schubert s Wanderer Fantasy, and then by a live recording of Beethoven s Choral Fantasy with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado, captured on New Year s Eve 1991.
Product details
Release Date:
2012-08-10
Publication Date:
2012-08-10
Publisher:
Deutsche Grammophon (Universal Music)
Languages:
Published:
German
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