The New York Concert

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Pianist Evgeny Kissin is teaming up with Emerson String Quartet for a chamber music live recording from sold out Carnegie Hall, in April 2018. A super star fusion of musicians performing mesmerizing repertoire: an exquisite Fauré, a stormy Mozart and a sweepingly sensual Dvořák.This is a rare moment in which one of the worlds most acclaimed pianists can be witnessed as a chamber musician. Thus, this recording, presenting Kissin and the ESQ performing chamber music repertoire, constitutes a novelty in DGs catalogue. With 9 Grammy Awards and 3 Gramophone Awards to date, the Emerson String Quartet bestrides the world of chamber music like a are without a question among the worlds most impressive string quartets and, founded in 1976, playing today as passionate and inquisitive as idea to play together, reaches back a couple of years, and has been immediately embraced enthusiastically by all five musicians. They then went on a tour including concerts in Paris, Munich, Vienna, Boston and New York in 2018.