Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Evgeny Kissin’s mantelpiece must be a riot of flowers at the moment. Twice during his Liszt recital on Sunday, once ...
“Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives,” the festival’s artistic director said. By Javier C. Hernández Teodor Currentzis and the ensemble ...
At six he began his studies with teacher Anna Kantor, from the Gnessin Special Music School, and at 11 he gave his first solo recital. In 1984, Kissin appeared with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra ...
A recital by Evgeny Kissin in Carnegie Hall is a regular event—and “event” is the right word. A Kissin recital is an event because of the stage seating (the overflow crowd on the stage). But also ...
Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Evgeny Kissin always attracts a particular kind of audience, and the immaculately coiffed figure who arrived at the ...