Evgeny Kissin
Pianist Evgeny Kissin's recital Sunday afternoon was his fifth for the Celebrity Series, and, judging by the audience response alone, his most successful. Mathew Guerrieri reviewed the performance for The Boston Globe, and Kissin's playing of Chopin's "Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brilliante" drew this from the critic and author of the blog, Soho the Dog:
"As the ineffably limpid nocturne of the introduction gave way to a polonaise of increasingly giddy virtuosity, Kissin surmounted each hurdle with inexhaustible reserves of color and imagination, veering from a whisper to a roar in an instant, turning phrases with coy charm and deploying kaleidoscopic legerdemain with a magician's flair. It even hushed the audience."
Read all of Kissin plays with color and imagination from the Globe and Guerrieri's blog entry, Din and tonic, covering the part of his review that was cut for space. I applaud Guerrieri's use of the virtually free real estate available online to make all the points he wanted to make (of course I do). I hope he is rewarded for his efforts with readers making the leap from atom to byte.
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