Evgeny Kissin: 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'.

Disc 1
1: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
2: III. Dance
3: I. Vivace
4: II. Andante Con Moto
5: III. Moderato
6: IV. Andante
7: V. Allegro Vivace
8: I. Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso
9: II. Andante Con Moto E Poco Rubato
10: III. Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso

Disc 2
1: No. 1 in B Major. Andante
2: Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29
3: Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp Major, Op. 36
4: Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 51
5: Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20
6: Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53, 'Heroic'
7: VI. Andante Con Moto in A-flat Major, 'Duetto'
8: Dodecaphonic Tango
9: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 31
10: 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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