Salzburg: Kissin out, Yuja in
NewsOne pianist has a pain in his arm, the other will make her festival debut on Friday night.
Press Release of the 2022 Salzburg Festival:
(SF, 03 August 2022) The Salzburg Festival is sorry to announce that Evgeny Kissin has been forced to cancel his Solo Recital on Friday, 5 August, at the Haus für Mozart. As the artist informed the Festival with great regret, pain in his arm has compelled him to take a break for some time, and he has been unable to prepare adequately for this solo recital.
The Salzburg Festival is pleased that Yuja Wang will step in to perform at short notice on this evening, thereby making her Festival recital debut.
lovely….. she’s amazing as we all know.
I can’t imagine there is much overlap between fans of Kissin and fans of Yuja, between the sacred and the profane.
Since when is Kissin profane?
Just a world-class troll – bravo!
Projections, projections, projections…
An experiment would have been most interesting:
Kissin cancels, the public is not told the truth, but a lie that Mr. Kissin suffers from an anxiety disorder and requested to play behind a curtain, not visible to the audience.
Then Yuja Wang plays.
Then the reactions of the audience are sampled.
Then they are told who actually played and reactions are sampled again.
I‘m certain the results would be revealing and hilarious…
Since when is Yuja profane??? as the word profane seems to parallel with Yuja, not Kissin.
Desperate snobbery
From gold to dust. What an absolutely lack of fantasy from the organizers.
Try finding a pianist at short notice who is free and then the travelling to consider and where it fits in with their previous and next concerts too. Pianists are busy. The organisers have done a great job at short notice to get Yuga Wang and she will do an excellent job making fine music, albeit with a different prgramme. Wish him a speedy recovery from his injury and her all the best for the concert
Cannot imagine a more idiotic, asinine comment ..but hey, Tchaikowski said Brahms was a mediocre composer, so you are entitled to your opinion
Not festival debut. Festival recital debut
Also not tonight but Friday night…
It’s literally all there in the copy and pasted text!
I seems like the Festival has been gradually relabeling itself as a show-biz venue. I don’t remember if they have a stadium there for whoever the three tenors du jour are and others performing in that isle of classical music.
I studied in Salzburg, and have family there. Always found it really snobby and a city full of Herr and Frau Doctors!
It is a pitty for Evgeny, who gave last month such a fine recital at the beautifull Flagey concert hall in Brussels
Shame on them! Anyone who performs for this festival is a Putin collaborator and they know it!
Yeah-yeah, and anyone playing Tchaikovsky also. Have a look at events in Serbia and China, if you’re not interested in festival
Don’t be stupid! That is very unfair on a performing artist.
It’s certainly unfair that a performing artist is performing at a Russian-backed music festival that implicitly supports the Putin regime. Hence the justified commotion about Currentzis.
Kissin did the right thing by morally withdrawing ‘due to a hand injury’.
When Mr. Kissin performs with us here in Chicago, for days beforehand he commandeers a piano that they situate just outside the men’s dressing room, where its sound will not bleed upstairs to the stage. He seems to practice relentlessly, all day every day. It is inspiring and a bit intimidating to witness.
You can see the results in his superhuman mastery of his instrument. But one must wonder if at some point it won’t take its toll on his body.
Please stop the Wang bashing and look at the programme of her recital.
Salzburg is indeed an innovative festival. Look at her programme: Ligeti, Schönberg, Scriabin, Albéniz… starting with two Schubert/Liszt songs. Brava Miss Wang!
Bravo for Yuja!
Maybe “brava” unless it’s a preferred pronoun issue…..
I’m sure those who bought tickets for Kissin will be thrilled to have the stand-in.
The lack of ideas of Mr Hinterhäuser and Mr Wiegand specially in the concert program is alarming. Only superstars allowed. Who else if not the Salzburg festival could present some out of the box ideas in terms of young talent? Or are they just waiting the good old agency friends let them know who they should book?
In his new DG recording of his 2021 recital, Kissin played the Dance and 5 pieces by Tikhon Krennikov. He was Stalin’s mouthpiece in the Union of Soviet Composers.
Kissin played for him as a child and argues that he did a lot behind the scenes in protecting Jewish composers for example.
Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate his music on it’s own terms. I heard a recording of his third symphony. It was certainly lot better than I was expecting. His music has been trashed by those who have probably never heard a note of it.
Will history judge Krennikov any more kindly in the future because of Kissin’s
efforts?
The Chinese singer will be in Lucerne and Salzburg in August anyway to perform a composition by Messiaen. Then she will perform her tour programme again, thankfully without Beethoven’s Sonata op. 31.3. If the Salzburg audience is lucky, she will dress even less on stage than she did in Los Angeles in April, where she wore only a leotard and tights. Wang can always up her vulgarity.
Wow! lots of comments about Kissin and Wang, and so many in agreement and so many not. Very divisive artists it seems.
After Wang showed for the performance of Beethoven and Schoenberg works at the Disney Concert Hall in LA on 6 April 2022 that she needs less and less outerwear but can get by with a leotard and tights, the question now for the audience in Salzburg was: what will the Chinese woman wear for her solo show in Salzburg? The photo https://www.krone.at/2778399 shows Wang in a green mini-mini dress that barely covers her bottom.
As in all her concert shows, she made it clear to the Salzburg audience that her legs are at the centre of the performance. In Salzburg, too, Wang showed herself as the person she wants to be: sexualised, tasteless, cheeky, addicted to attention. The woman needs a psychoanalyst.
Saw Yuja at the Verbier Festival on July 22nd & 29th filling in for Kissin. She is a miracle! Don’t miss!