Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos (3CD)

To be able to record Beethoven's piano concertos in their entirety is a momentous experience for any pianist. Evgeny Kissin has often played these works on the concert podium - and has also recorded some of them - but for the complete recording he took his time until he found the ideal musical environment to be able to make an impressive and very personal statement with his interpretation. Producer Jay Saks, who has worked very closely with Kissin since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1990, described his impression: "The recording with Genya [Kissin] and Sir Colin was a wonderful experience. [It was] so consummately musicianly, so musical, and so completely in the spirit of Beethoven. Unadorned and unpretentious, it was of a beauty and simplicity, technically brilliant, musically thought out to the smallest detail, and of a great depth of expression. As a producer, I had to keep reminding myself that I was in the recording studio for professional reasons; his playing is so overwhelming that you forget everything around you. This Beethoven interpretation is breathtaking."