CLEVELAND, Ohio — Few pianists today elicit the kind of eager expectation, borne of star-power and reputation, that Evgeny Kissin does the moment he takes the stage. There is a quality to his presence ...

As Evgeny Kissin gets older his style of playing may change and his repertory may expand beyond the Romantic works he now chooses to play. But, as his recital Saturday night at the Kennedy Center made ...

Evgeny Kissin's ability to get around a piano keyboard like an Olympian has been amply demonstrated over many years of concerts and recordings. Yet his artistry is most affecting when he leaves ...

Evgeny Kissin’s more or less annual recital appearances are invariably among the most highly anticipated events of Chicago’s classical music season, and the audience turnout for the Russian piano ...

Three years ago, pianist Evgeny Kissin took an apparently self-imposed sabbatical from the music of Chopin. Perhaps he was tired of being identified as a Chopin player — pianist Martha Argerich had ...

We're exploring music this hour from two child prodigies who blossomed into seasoned adult performers. From a recording pianist Evgeny Kissin made when he was 12, we start with Chopin's Mazurka, Op.

On Friday night, Evgeny Kissin played a recital in Carnegie Hall. He will repeat the program in another recital, in the same hall, this coming Wednesday. I have been reviewing concerts in New York ...

You know the kind of thing: Kissin the visitor from outer space, the strange performer who bows to the audience like a priest at a religious rite, displays plenty of peerless technique, but after ...

We're back with Evgeny Kissin, and music by Chopin. He's in concert with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Dmitri Kitaenko playing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11.