MENDELSSOHN – LIEDER OHNE WORTE (SONGS WITHOUT WORDS) IGOR LEVIT piano This new release on CD and streaming from German-Russian pianist Igor Levit is his personal response, in music, to the 7th October 2023 atrocities in Israel and the alarming rise of anti-semitism around the world. ‘I made this recording out of a very, very…
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Rigour & Freedom: FANTASIA – Igor Levit, piano
FANTASIA Works by JS Bach, Berg, Busoni, Liszt, Schubert Igor Levit (piano) Sony Classical 19658811642 (2 discs) Igor Levit, dubbed by The New Yorker as a pianist “like no other”, doesn’t do things by halves. He has forged a reputation and loyal following around the world by performing and recording some of the most challenging…
NO FEAR Igor Levit
A film by Regina Schilling The title of this fly-on-the-wall documentary about German-Russian pianist Igor Levit is taken from a comment on the Beethoven piano sonatas, music which has been more than a significant part of Levit’s life (he has recorded the complete piano sonatas for Sony Classical and performed several complete cycles of the…
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