Evgeny Kissin La Campanella

knightlynderic. 'Evgeny Kissin La Campanella'. YouTube. Created 19 Sept, 2010. Accessed 20 Oct, 2011.

The artist for this performance of La campanella came from his native country of Moscow, Russia. He's Evgeny Kissin. Comparing with the other 5 recordings, he doesn't use much of the sustaining pedal in his playing, in fact not at all. This has in turn made his music sound very clear especially in the running passages. In also proving another point, without the use of sustaining pedal, yet being able to produce high quality of music so smoothly meant that he has great finger technique and good fingers.
The articulation was clear, especially at 2:44 to 2:59 where he managed to play the legato passages so well even without the use of the sustaining pedal.
In my opinion, there is one particular part which I do not agree with, that is the part where at the animato section where he simply "bang" through the chords at 4:02 to 4:17.