Info:
Duration: 01’ 50” or shorter variations
Year of production: 2002
On 9th of July 2001, Evgeny Kissin played a truly memorable piano recital in the old Roman theatre of Orange in the south of France, as part of the Chorégies d'Orange Summer Festival and although it rained, twice, in the two hours before it began, he nevertheless drew an audience of more than 4000 people and generated an extraordinary public enthusiasm.
Perhaps it had something to do with the antique Roman stones, which have been attracting the public for 2000 years, or the Mediterranean spirit of the French summer festivals. It certainly had to do with the fact that Kissin’s interpretations were becoming more and more penetrating. It is difficult to imagine a more telling performance of the Mussorgsky Pictures.
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Full music repertoire:
Bach-Busoni - Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major BWV 564
Robert Schumann - Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor Opus 11
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Glinka / Balakirev: The Lark
Rimsky Korsakov / Rachmaninoff: The Flight of the Bumblebee
Alfred Grünfeld: Fantasy on themes from Strauss Waltzes
Alexander Scriabin: Etude - Opus 8 No 12
Franz Liszt: Paraphrase de concert - Rigoletto, (Bella figlia dell'amore)
Originally we produced a two-hour version for BBC television, which includes the entire recital, plus a sequence from our portrait film Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music and two shorter versions for the ARTE network in France and Germany: The Schumann sonata with the Glinka and Rimsky Korsakov encores (40’30”) and The Mussorgsky Pictures with the Grünfeld encore (40’).
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