Posted on 28/03/08
Erratic tempos mar Kissin's rendering of Brahms
TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAEVGENY KISSIN, PIANO Sir Andrew Davis, conductor Colin Fox, narrator At Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Wednesday Brilliant Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and its conductor laureate, Andrew Davis, for a performance Wednesday of Brahms's First Piano Concerto that combined extraordinary lyrical sensitivity and exquisite pianistic detail with an erratic approach to pulse and rhythm that left us wondering whether he thought of the music as a whole organism of sound or only a chain of lovely notions that he could tighten or slacken at will.
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