Moreover, his trills were poor, as they have always been, a puzzling fact for a pianist so technically accomplished. After intermission, Kissin presented Scriabin's Sonata No. 3, and here he was as convincing and musical as he has ever been. It suffered from wrongly accented notes and was altogether more lumpy than limpid. Last on the printed program was Balakirev's wild and popular Islamey , a great Russian romp, an anthem of a kind. If he can shed some of his more corrosive habits, he will fulfill all of the promise of his heroic teens.
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Mitsuko Uchida appeared at Carnegie Hall, New York, on November 22, 1999. Evgeny Kissin appeared on December 4. Emanuel Ax appeared on December 6. Go back to the text. From The New Criterion Vol.