There are recordings and then there are deeds. Igor Levit likes deeds. During the lockdown phase of the pandemic, Levit live-streamed nightly recitals from his Berlin apartment, for good measure ...

Levit plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations — very well — while his piano turns one complete rotation. A light above the piano’s keyboard and running its entire length illuminates Levit’s hands and upper ...

Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended problems.

Yesterday, though, the universally acclaimed Levit showed his paces at the familar core of the modern piano repertoire (albeit with a work that Bach conceived in 1741 as exercises for the two-manual ...

Pianist Igor Levit gives a bold solo recital with music by Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven—as reimagined by Liszt for solo piano. It’s an intimate journey across centuries. Listen today at 2 pm on 91.1, ...

Igor Levit’s late Beethoven sonatas (11/13) and Bach Partitas (10/14) on Sony Classical have already made bold declarations of his pianistic and artistic prowess. Now he confirms his appetite for the ...

Over the weekend, Igor Levit pulled off an amazing feat, or stunt, you might say. Levit, recall, is the Russian-German pianist born in 1987. He played Vexations, a little, half-page piece by Satie.

Igor Levit has become one of the “one of the essential artists of his generation” (The New York Times). Nine years after his Princeton University Concerts debut, he returns at long last with a program ...

Some years ago—five? ten? twenty?—“relevant” became one of those bogus words. It is not so much a word as a tic or a pose. The first sentence of Igor Levit’s bio tells us that he is “one of the most ...

The latest mammoth release by Igor Levit, a new symphonic work by John Luther Adams and music by William Grant Still are among the highlights. The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and ...

(16) Waltzes, Movements: No. 15 in A flat Igor Levit, Piano Christian Thielemann, Piano Igor Levit has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most intellectual of pianists – a ‘thinking virtuoso’ ...