Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Evgeny Kissin and a Bunch of Encores

 I have talked a lot of times about the six encores that Grigory Sokolov seems to play at the end of every concert, but I just ran across a rather amazing bunch of encores from Evgeny Kissin. This is from his Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall in 1997 before 6,000 people. He plays eight encores:


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2 comments:

  1. NothingAugust 12, 2020 at 1:29 AM

    I witnessed something even more incredie. In Naples, in early 2010s, he played 15 encores, one more difficult than the other, all flawlessly

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  2. Bryan TownsendAugust 12, 2020 at 8:14 AM

    That sounds like it might be a record! I have seen Nigel Rogers do seven encores and Andrés Segovia do eight, not to mention Grigory Sokolov do six in a couple of different concerts. But fifteen! Wow. Last summer in Salzburg he did three encores.

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