★★★★★
Kissin is the baby-faced Russian pianist who took America by storm last fall, and this record, Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall made live, shows why. The 19-year-old Russian is impetuous, fiery, headstrong, willful ? and terrific. His Schumann Symphonic Études sing, the Prokofiev SixthSonata growls, and Liszt and Chopin drip with drawing-room sentiment, not sentimentality. Get on the Kissin bandwagon: He's for real.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Evgeny Kissin has been accused of being a bland interpreter in recent years. True, his Prokofiev First and Third (DG) was guilty of a rather smooth perfectionism, the kind of deft pianism you admire--while you're reading the paper. But at least his last two releases on RCA, this Chopin disc and a brilliant Schumann one earlier this year, are anything but bland. Here, Kissin plays Chopin with dynamics and accenting more than vaguely reminiscent of Horowitz at his best...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28