Kissin sets the standard at Celebrity Series
Kissin at the keyboard last Sunday. Photo: Robert TorresAmong classical pianists, Evgeny Kissin perhaps embodies the deepest clash between personal and musical affect. His specialty is late Romantic/early Modernist extremity - and we got plenty of that in a program back-loaded with Scriabin - but his performing persona is hardly that of some wild Liszt-o-manic virtuoso; he instead evinces much of the child …