Evgeny Kissin The Gift of Music (2000)

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin was born in Moscow on the 10th of October 1971 He started to play the piano at the age of two as soon as he was tall enough to reach the keyboard and he has not looked back from that day to this His is a very rare story of continued success that has had the simultaneous blessing of critics the public and musicians alike This film by Christopher Nupen shows Kissin in preparation interview rehearsal and performance with several dazzling performances shot live on stage in true concert conditions It also contains all the encores from Kissins memorable Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall London in August 1997the first Prom concert by a soloist it attracted the biggest audience in all the 103 year history very nearly six thousand people The music is by Liszt Gluck Haydn Beethoven Schubert Paganini Kissin himself and Chopin the composer for whom Kissin feels the closest affinity