This is the whole program? Seems a little short.
He put it on his official website. Well, nocturne is some 7-8, impromptus about 18, scherzo 10, polonaize 7, so around 45 minutes. Khrenikov I don’t know, but Berg is 10, Gershwin 7.
Unlezz he’z gone full :pogo: :wim:
I just checked: those Khrenikov pieces last 12 minutes.
Doesn’t he play sospiro in Tokyo?
Who iz/wuz da better pianizt?
- 15 yr old GENIE
- Current Mature GENIE
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It’ll surprise no one what I’ll write below this. I don’t like the kid at all, the youngster interests me only for the chops (though good studio recs), but during the past 8 years now I think he’s finally found his voice. And it’s a coarse one - but so was Cobain’s.
I just receive mail from Kissin, via my friend. It starts like this:
“Here are some additions and corrections to K. Starcevic’s list of my repertoire:”
And there he put all works he can remember at the moment
Cool!
“The name of the composer of the last Piano Concerto in the list is KHRENNIKOV (“Khernikov” sounds hilariously obscene in Russian).”
“Khren” means horseradish.
Slang for “dick” but not as vulgar as HUI which only has one meaning - “cock”
So khren-pizda is a perfect match?
If u is hetero - tru
Among other things:
@xsdc Kissin said he didn’t play Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5. But he did play Prokofiev’s March, Op. 12 no. 10. Can you please check two things: Did he play Chopin Mazurka in G minor, Op. 24 no. 1 in 2006 as an encore? I have a recording from February 2016 from Belgrade, where he did it as a fourth encore. Another thing - which encores did he play after 2009 Prokofiev (8th sonata) & Chopin (Etudes) program? Vienna’s Musikverein is listing Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor op. posth. as a first encore, but he said he never played. Maybe it was 27/1 nocturne?
He played Brahm’s First Cello Sonata in E minor, as well as some song transcriptions, both with cellisr Alexander Kniazev. @Ron Can you check if Kissin really played that Divertimento by Haydn with Ghorokov?
What more is, I looked in to this a little yesterday and I actually found a friend who has a recording of it listed.
The problem is that he’s dead.
I don’t have it from that year
Op.27#2
Hahah I actually find da a very interezting mofo perzonality wize.
Zeemz lyk a bit ov a zocially awkward mofo in da mozt charming and warm hearted way. I haf zeen zum placez online where people guezz he haz azpergerz…I can zee dat being pozzible.
da ONLY zheeyat I dizlyk about hiz azz iz da KANcerto dizz
Or autism.
I think he does. The way he behaves in interviews goes beyond what I’m prepared to call normal.