Evgeny Kissin: One Concert, Three Concertos
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, SE1 8XX , [Venue Details]The gifted classical pianist plays three bold, brilliant and distinctive jewels of the piano concerto repertoire alongside the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Admired – even venerated – as the heir of the great Russian piano tradition, Kissin has an impressive list of awards, firsts and ‘youngest-evers’ to his name, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Prokofiev piano concertos with the Philharmonia.
Rimsky-Korsakov acknowledged his debt to Liszt for his concerto’s lyricism and virtuosity, but gave it a marked Russian flavour by using a Russian folk song as its main theme.
Prokofiev’s concerto, like its composer, is bright and daring. He chose to perform it in a competition at the St Petersburg Conservatory, reasoning that the judges ‘simply would not be able to judge whether I was playing it well or not’. His chutzpah paid off, and he won the competition – his prize was a grand piano.
Scriabin said that he wrote the piano part of his concerto in just a week. Yearning and poetic, it follows in the footsteps of Chopin, but points firmly in the direction of Scriabin’s journey into radical, almost mystical individuality.
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Admission
Min: £24.50
Max: £112.00
Performer name: Philharmonia Orchestra
Other key names: Lawrence Foster - conductor, Evgeny Kissin - piano
Age restriction: For ages 7+, U12's must be accompanied by an adult
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Evgeny Kissin: One Concert, Three Concertos
Monday, 17 Nov 2025 @7.30pm
Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, SE1 8XXMore Information
The gifted classical pianist plays three bold, brilliant and distinctive jewels of the piano concerto repertoire alongside the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Admired – even venerated – as the heir of the great Russian piano tradition, Kissin has an impressive list of awards, firsts and ‘youngest-evers’ to his name, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Prokofiev piano concertos with the Philharmonia.
Rimsky-Korsakov acknowledged his debt to Liszt for his concerto’s lyricism and virtuosity, but gave it a marked Russian flavour by using a Russian folk song as its main theme.
Prokofiev’s concerto, like its composer, is bright and daring. He chose to perform it in a competition at the St Petersburg Conservatory, reasoning that the judges ‘simply would not be able to judge whether I was playing it well or not’. His chutzpah paid off, and he won the competition – his prize was a grand piano.
Scriabin said that he wrote the piano part of his concerto in just a week. Yearning and poetic, it follows in the footsteps of Chopin, but points firmly in the direction of Scriabin’s journey into radical, almost mystical individuality.
Admission
Min: £24.50
Max: £112.00
Performer name: Philharmonia Orchestra
Other key names: Lawrence Foster - conductor, Evgeny Kissin - piano
Age restriction: For ages 7+, U12's must be accompanied by an adult
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