The Salzburg Recital

Evgeny Kissin's sensational recital at 2021's summer Salzburg Festival. The Salzburg Recital builds dramatic tension across a compelling programme of music by Berg, Chopin, Gershwin and Khrennikov. An adventurously idiosyncratic concert program, the first half of the recital uniting three early 20th-century composers from wholly contrary musical traditions: Austria, Russia and the United States. The second half of the recital is devoted entirely to the music of Frédéric Chopin on whom Kissin noted, 'the longer I live, the more I feel that his music is closest to my heart'. After Alban Berg's incredibly expressive Piano sonata, the rhythmic vitality and light-footedness of Gershwin's Three Preludes for Piano with their vibes of Charleston, blues and foxtrot are standing next to the meditative nature of three of Chopin's Impromptus and a brooding Nocturne. Kissin combined them most intriguingly with pieces of Russian composer Tikhon Khrennikov, showing the surprisingly modernist nature of his early compositions. A most memorable programme culminates in three encores containing Debussy's 'Clair de lun', a composition of Kissin himself and one of Mendelssohn's 'Lieder ohne Worte'.

1-1 I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
1-1 Piano Sonata, Op. 1
1-2 I. Vivace
1-2 II. Andante con moto e poco rubato
1-3 III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
1-3 II. Andante con moto
1-4 III. Moderato
1-4 No. 1 in B Major. Andante
1-5 Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29
1-5 IV. Andante
1-6 V. Allegro
1-6 Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36
2-1 Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51
2-1 III. Dance
2-2 Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20
2-2 VI. Andante con moto in A-Flat Major "Duetto"
2-3 II. Dodecaphonic Tango
2-3 Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 "Heroic"
2-4 Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31
2-5 III. Clair de lune

Composer: Frederic Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Tikhon Khrennikov, George Gershwin, Evgeny Kissin

Number of Discs: 2

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