Evgeny Kissin, one of the world's great piano technicians, rarely played Beethoven during the first part of his career. When he did, it was the Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), which appears here, along with works to which he came for the first time. The recordings here were all made live, in line with Kissin's belief that studio recordings offer only a pale substitute for the live performance experience, between 2006 and 2016, and each one places the pianist's technical gifts in the service of a ...
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Evgeny Kissin, one of the world's great piano technicians, rarely played Beethoven during the first part of his career. When he did, it was the Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), which appears here, along with works to which he came for the first time. The recordings here were all made live, in line with Kissin's belief that studio recordings offer only a pale substitute for the live performance experience, between 2006 and 2016, and each one places the pianist's technical gifts in the service of a novel and often profound interpretation. Works from all three Beethoven periods are presented, but you might start by sampling the finale of the Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3, whose leaping opening figure is often treated as a prime example of the young Beethoven's obstreperous nature. Here it is an elegant group of pirouettes, akin to the music in the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43. Few pianists other than Kissin could have made the whole gesture hang...
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