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Re: WARNING Brian Cheney Kissin WARNING

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Dear Doctor,

I'm glad Kissin sounded good to you in recital. My impressions are based on the sampler disc his record company is distributing, one cut from each of his eight RCA albums.

Classical music is a hard enough sell without performers like Kissin making a complete hash of the standard repetoire, and being praised for it. As a former piano student I am familiar with the works he plays on this disc and I have never heard such amusical, egotiscal, display oriented, insightless trash in my entire life. Yes his technique is first rate, maybe the best. It doesn't matter. There are much better versions of what he plays available from great masters. Newbies recommended to Kissin might think this is how such works should be played. Nothing is further from the truth. The man is a speed-obsessed, empty-headed poseur. No wonder RCA wants to cancel his contract.

Don't ask me what I REALLY think of him.

One of the cuts on the sampler is from a live performance, so there is little reason to assume he's any better in person.

Big B


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