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Evgeny Kissin

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A side profile shot of Evgeny Kissin

Chopin at his most mercurial, and Shostakovich’s response to Bach as well as his piano sonata swansong all come under the spotlight as the great pianist attends to unfinished business.

In February Evgeny Kissin anchored performances of Shostakovich’s sonatas for violin, viola, and cello. Now he returns to play the lean, sometimes wistful Second Piano Sonata as well as excerpts from Shostakovich’s extended tribute to Bach. Chopin, a Kissin favourite, is not forgotten, and a spot of nocturnal reverie is capped by the E major Scherzo, a work in which incandescent passion and caprice meet.

Technically unassailable, interpretatively distinctive, Evgeny Kissin is one of the world’s most sought-after pianists – among his many awards, Echo Klassik’s Soloist of the Year. The Washington Post wonders if ‘anyone else has the virtuosity to step this far outside the box with such honesty, and dignity, and power’. ‘Kissin’ has a phenomenal technique’, argues BBC Music Magazine, ‘and no inhibitions about displaying it’.

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This performance will end at approximately 9.30pm with a 20-minute interval after Chopin Scherzo No. 4.

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Johann Sebastian Bach   Partita No 2
  • Frédéric Chopin   Nocturne in C# minor Op 27, No 1
  •   Nocturne in A-flat major Op 32, No 2
  •   Scherzo No 4
  • Dmitri Shostakovich   Piano Sonata No 2
  •   Prelude and Fugue in D-Flat Major
  •   Prelude and Fugue in D-Minor

Performers

  • Evgeny Kissin   piano

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