Last night, Evgeny Kissin, the Russian-born pianist, began his recital with Chopin. I thought back to the 1980s—1984, specifically. Kissin was twelve, a curly-headed boy in a red Young Pioneers scarf.

NEW YORK — Pianist Evgeny Kissin speaks many languages, but to audiences around the world he is best known — and in some circles, revered — for his ability to articulate, with precision, the greatest ...

On Friday night, Evgeny Kissin played a recital in Carnegie Hall. He will repeat the program in another recital, in the same hall, this coming Wednesday. I have been reviewing concerts in New York ...

But you certainly could argue that Kissin has been the world’s most enigmatic great pianist since the death of Sviatoslav Richter in 1997 — though, unlike the promiscuously gay Richter, his ...