When they were young: Vengerov, Kissin, Repin in 1988
mainRare video of a Soviet export concert in Hamburg, newly uploaded to Youtube.
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These are fun, though my favourite remains the clip of Kissin playing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 1 with baby Nakariakov on solo trumpet.
How is the music education system holding up now, in post-Soviet days?
A touching photo, charming, before the storms of life: 32 years on, Kissin in his 40s no longer lives with his childhood piano teacher and has married to everyone’s relief; Vengerov has survived kinetic problems and is conducting; Repin I’ll have to look up.
Vengerov’s problems were predictable. At a CSO rehearsal in his 20s, he stood feet apart, arms and violin straight down until his entry, when he whipped it up to his chin and bowed with neck stretched looking straight up at the ceiling, putting strain on neck and back. Playing violin is a physical challenge at best. When he led Shostakovich quartets with Yuri Bashmet, Rostropovich, and CSO concertmaster Samuel Magad in 1999, he sat sensibly looking at his part, as did Slava, though his was ablaze with red markings.
V.Repin’s married to star ballerina Svetlana Zacharova. A big reflection on VR
So Caroline his Italian lawyer wife, has been replaced?
Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois , violent and piano.
How can you call Evgeny Kissin “Jewgenij” ? Disgusting racism.
Can you possibly be serious? “Jewgenij” is just the German transliteration of the Russian name that comes out as “Yevgeny” in English, and is pronounced in the same way. It has nothing whatever to do with being Jewish. “Jew” is not a word in German.
Prokofiev correct spelling is Prokofjew
This is certainly earlier than 1988. Kissin was born in 1971. I have heard him in 1988 with Karajan in Berlin and he looked older than in this video.
E.Kissin was born 1973
Wrong. Kissin is born October 1971. Vengerov in August 1974 and Repin in August 1971.
1) Kissin at 15 (video must have been made in 1987 not 1988, because in 1988 he would’ve been at least 16, was already touring London with Gergiev and about to do Berlin with Karajan) was already an old pro, having toured Japan, on a solo recital in 1985, and playing the Tchaikovsky piano concerto in 1986 with a young (and still toothpick-less) Gergiev conducting.
2) Age difference aside, is Kissin really taller than Vengerov?
3) Do the Germans really transliterate “Евгений” (Кисин) as “Jewgenij” (Kissin)?
3) Yes they often do!
Vengerov looks roughly like Barenboim’s height. Kissin is taller, maybe by around 5cm. Their 3-year age gap easily explains the height difference in the above mid-80s photograph.
I firmly believe that Vengerov in the 90s and Tetzlaff always are the two best violinists I ever heard live. (I missed Heifetz by a bit.)
Yes. Vengerov with Slava and the LSO performing many concerts. Absolutely magical.
And what an adorable photo. They all still look pretty much like that (ok, MV not so much now).
Che tenerezza vedere ed udire un ragazzino di nome Maxim, che bell’artista, già a quei tempi!
(Questa commozione, la posso esprimere solo nella mia lingua materna.)
Pretty amazing playing. Now we know where Jerry Seinfeld got the idea for his “puffy shirt” episode.
Some talent that…
I was always wondering and suspicious of child prodigies, often noticing decline and obscurity years after the thrill and amazement ‘circus style’ of their early talents.
– Well these 3 guys prove me wrong, they all kept excelling
with age … BRAVI ! I suspect good parenting and proper teachers skills.