When the German pianist Igor Levitt was featured as the soloist at the Nobel Prize ceremony last December, it marked yet another grace note in a career that's quickly grown filled with awards and ...

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 ...

Rzewski (pictured below) has always been an eclectic composer, taking styles and ideas, from historical allusions to post-tonal harmonies, and combining them into lively and virtuosic piano works.

The ‘Tempest’ Sonata (op. 31, no. 2) begins in quiet, rising arpeggios, which Levit delivered in a hushed whisper, his attack on each note crystal clear, but the phrases held together through generous ...

Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky. By Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, ...

FILE - Russian-German pianist Igor Levit and French conductor Stephane Deneve with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor Concerto) during the ...

'All I can do is help the pain of my people through music': Igor Levit - Felix Broede/ Sony Classical On October 7, the renowned German-Jewish pianist Igor Levit – who at 36 has just become the ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pianist Igor Levit, the San Francisco Symphony's Artist-in-Residence for the ...