Evgeny Kissin is back in town, playing in the NCH/The Irish Times Celebrity Series on Monday. Kissin has been a celebrity since, in 1984, at the age of 13, he performed the two Chopin concertos back-to-back with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. He's an electrifying performer, one of the few who manages to give the impression that his technique can infallibly deliver anything his often fanciful imagination can demand. His second appearance in Dublin, like his first, concentrates on core 19th-century repertoire, Beethoven's Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2, nicknamed The Tempest, Schumann's kaleidoscopic Carnaval, and the early Sonata Op 5, in which the young Brahms stretched himself in romantic ardour and virtuosity
