Evgeny Kissin: Modest Mussorgski - Baba Yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev

Live recording from the Chorégies d'Orange - Frankreich, 2002
0:00 Baba Yaga: The Witch
3:19 The Heroes Gate at Kiev
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[@maisonsacre]

I felt every note as he played it. What an astonishing performance

[@vinesthemonkey]

the raw energy is what really makes this performance

[@chriary]

In order to get this right,u will have to flop ur head up and down to get it PERFECT

[@pianogus]

Pondering with a heavy heart--maybe as heavy as Kissin's hands on those last chords--on what's happening in Ukraine right now, listening to this throws me into great depths of sorrow, a state of intractable existential anguish. Anybody feeling the same way?

[@minnieyuyantung]

yes

[@neil73]

Me too. Loved this piece for many years, since my music teacher introduced me to the Russian composers back in 1983. I can't believe we are back in similar circumstances (cold war atmosphere) as to when I first heard it.

[@bumble1612]

It is emotionally challenging for me at this time.

[@danny53012]

Yes

[@kevinm6790]

Yes. But there is no such place as The Ukraine.

[@n10juan]

one of best baba yaga + kiev EVER!

[@ohraider]

n10juan Evgenys performance is the best one

[@graham5774]

I can see the power emanating from him at 5:45.

[@handznet]

I love the sound of this recording - and this is just youtube, wow.

[@microsoftice6498]

you have to be very angry at sth to play baba yaga perfect

[@mingj7202]

🤣🤣

[@chriary]

JAZZZ XD

[@krashd]

Or just know what it's like to have two Mark III Cobras waiting for you outside the station.

[@N_Skoronski]

Easy for me. I'd still be mad from botching the marketplace so badly.

[@microsoftice6498]

@@N_Skoronski oh man the Marketplace is terrible, especially the ending makes me mad 😅

[@benjarferandez5517]

Been listening to alot of recordings but the momentary pause in 6:24 is what keeps me coming back! It makes so much difference in terms of anticipation and climax

[@liampollock9780]

that kiev is beautiful, the all the power of the orchestra in one instrument - amazing

[@malenasheytanova9967]

Not orchestra - tower bells!

[@PhilippeBrun-qy3st]

Perfect...

[@malenasheytanova9967]

Hats down, people, this is a genius. It's not just the unmatched almighty sound power. It's not just the huge dynamical amplitude. It's not just the creativity and absolute uniqueness in performing approach that makes him OWN this piece. This is The absolute ability, placed at absolute submission to a timeless team that sometimes author and perfomer make. A collaboration beyond the limits of both time and life and death. And now THIS is Art in its essence! And when I see videos of some lady-like performers crawling for survival under this Hell of a piece's demands, people hysterically applauding in comments proclaiming them for God himself, I think there should be some honesty in judging. Where judging means ability to discern good from bad, mediocre from exceptional. What Kissin accomplished here, is genious.

[@ContemporaryDulcimer]

Such an incredibly powerful piece of music, and such a powerhouse performance!

[@filipjandus4537]

I played it with orchestra tonight, not easy for orchestra let alone for one player, indeed very good performance!

[@dimitriskalatzis3173]

It's crazy how it was 7 years ago in like 2017🙃

[@shin-i-chikozima]

力強く寂しく優しく華麗で圧倒的な才能がみえる

[@sophisticatedstick]

Shin-i-chi Kozima ウミセチトマソホイ

[@diegoaranda605]

Genial !!!!!! Casi como tocar el cielo con las manos

[@francofrancescobettiol7928]

Eccezionale esecuzione del giovane Kissin/ Exceptional performance of the young Kissin

[@margithenschel9138]

eine phänomenale Einspielung!

[@octane781]

"You can't tell a story with with instrumental only." Modest Mussorgsky: "Hold my kvass."

[@konsporz1540]

Wow!

[@scott-joplin]

すばらしいです。 ウクライナとロシアの戦争が始まって以来、毎日この曲を聴いて泣いています。 爆撃・倒れた人々の悲しみ・きっと訪れるであろう平和・希望。 それらが表現しつくされた名曲です。 どちらの国民にとっても、大切な「キエフの大門」。 戦争が終わることをお祈りいたします。

[@johnnybr85]

One of my favorite pieces 😍 and such an amazing performance... Bravo

[@linbo2003]

Bravo!

[@marceloribeiro4010]

Amazing!!!

[@andreas3896]

Kissin plays Mussorgskis "Great Gate of Kiev" very impressiv!!!

[@flacidPillow]

Just did the Baba Yaga mission in Rise of the Tomb Raider the other day... and then this shows up in my sub feed.

[@flacidPillow]

jonatan black no there's a mission all about Baba Yaga, I don't think this song is in it

[@alanbrown442]

Courtesy of KZbin I've watched a few performances of 'Kiev' of late. It's a most difficult piece, even for the most talented. But I see the same problems arising again and again. I looked at the last portrait of Mussorgsky; even in ill-health he strove to create music - only for us; we must respect what he left behind. Look at the middle sections - the ones that don't have audiences on their feet; they must be played with equal intensity. He wrote them to be played, so don't have a little rest when you come to them. Watch also the dynamic range; you can't go from so loud that the eardrums suffer to so quiet that you can't hear what is being played. Watch also the timing - sometimes it slips. I know it can't be easy - but then it wasn't for Mussorgsky either.

[@BetaCummins]

Electrifying!

[@pietrospaggiari808]

I can't think of anything more slavic than this.

[@karstonsalsbury5408]

4:14 when she engages the triple twister slobber 9000

[@kiahrobinson7359]

Is anyone able to tell me the piano he is performing with? I love the sound!

[@arielruiz2255]

¡De pie!

[@jansliacky2616]

3:17 Heroic gate of kyjev

[@alfredogomez5241]

WOW

[@shin-i-chikozima]

His performance is overwhelming,,His ability gives me goose skin,, so it is terrible mighty piano play,,Are you who listen to this music a person of what country？please tell me it .

[@lovetheclassics100]

from England.

[@omarnoe5850]

Mexico

[@jaimed2017]

France

[@josephmclaughlin9865]

No one wants to hear USA, but that is where I am from.

[@luizg8034]

Brazil also @@josephmclaughlin9865 why not? xD nothing against the usa mate

[@aplimnavsakuma]

M.Musorgskis - "Mājiņa uz vistas kājām" no klaviercikla "Izstādes gleznas"

[@LarchenkoTF]

Very much prefer this version from Kissin as a death metal lover.

[@BeckyMesser]

I just love every time he plays a gigantic piece like this, he’s so freakin good!

[@earthwater9964]

Феноминально

[@SharonCreamer671956]

Marvelous. I don't think you missed a note.

[@Alessandro_da_Rimini]

I was expecting baba yaga coming out his hair!

[@user-ve5gr2hk5j]

ピアノバージョンの展覧会の絵のCD持ってますよ。私も高校時代にクラブで管弦楽を３年プラス３年程経験しています。 確か、カラヤン指揮の。 最初から聞くと、管弦楽とは違うピアノバージョンの展覧会の絵の演奏は聴き応えアリです。

[@simonpavan754]

Pietro vuole suonare così come una strega

[@aloismelichar815]

1:00 Chromatic aberration^1000

[@BeckyMesser]

It literally sounds like it’s saying Uh! OHHHHH.. uh! uh! OHHHHH 🤣

[@Kievest]

The Rapture!!!!!!! Bravo!!

[@alejandrox8987]

Soberbia interpretacion

[@stvirginias1722]

john wick....

[@irenemwrench8594]

Slawa Ukraine x

[@mysticmouse7261]

Mussorsky and Kissin are Russian and they killed it.

[@artemesaulkov2010]

Why the fuck would you write that here? Imagine attempting a provocation in comment section of a classical live concert

[@yonathantando9432]

I think kissin and lang lag is one of the best pianist

[@kevinm6790]

Please don’t insult Kissin by comparing him to Lang Lang.

[@yonathantando9432]

@@kevinm6790 haha😅👍

[@ncironjohn4336]

Great performance. Hope he's not Russian. That would be sad.

[@ncironjohn4336]

I take that back. I see his a British as well as as an Israeli. Best wishes, and as much to Ukraine.

[@cityththedragon7568]

"I hope he's not Russian" You think he has a choice?

[@artemesaulkov2010]

He is and you should be embarrassed of yourself

[@lukasantos6991]

I wonder if Kissin or Lisitsa at Czech rudolfinum played it better... I prefer Lisista's version

[@handznet]

Lisitsa plays everything too fast for my taste - because she can, her skills are insane, but I sometimes feel that it hurts the piece a bit.

[@openclassics]

Much too fast!!! Boogie-Woogie or Maestoso Con Grandezza??? YEAH!!! 2800 attacks per Minute! WOW!!! Nice Circus-Horse! Showtime! But he is missing a feather in his ass…

[@filipstremfelj7119]

BIG CHUNGUS

[@jaxengh5162]

this sucks

[@yuxiangjiang5703]

Imagine wasting energy to hate on people

[@mitchelldwyer5781]

It was so good even Animusic used it

[@GTXTi-db5xu]

Fuck you, asshole

[@GTXTi-db5xu]

fuck you bitch who the hell are you

[@GTXTi-db5xu]

fuck you kid

[@rosekazan97]

Слава Україні!