Evgeny Kissin – review

Barbican, LondonTo programme Beethoven's final Sonata, in C minor op 111, is a major statement by any pianist. When that pianist is the supremely gifted but calculatingly inscrutable Evgeny Kissin, it is a choice that brings one to the concert hall with a specially keen curiosity.Technically, as expected, Kissin was master of Beethoven's formidable demands – as he certainly was in Haydn's E flat Sonata HobXVI, with which he opened. But the larger intellectual explorations of Beethoven's writin...

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