It took pianist Evgeny Kissin much of the first half of his recital to fully hit his stride. But when he did, with a dynamic, expansive performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4, the packed ...

The program heard this past weekend at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank started off orderly enough with a fine, almost courtly rendition of Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo ...