Igor Levit

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Brahms: Piano Concertos; Piano Pieces Opp 116-119 album review – Levit’s performance is utterly compelling
It’s hard to think of a better recording of Brahms’ late solo works for piano, even if the two concertos they are packaged with here are less convincing

Andrew Clements

10, Oct, 2024 @3:46 PM

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The week in classical: Igor Levit, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Hagen; Manchester Camerata: Disruptors – review
Three soloists collaborate to singular effect playing Brahms, while vibrant works old and new are performed by the Camerata ensemble

Fiona Maddocks

11, May, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Classical home listening: Sinfonia of London’s Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Lieder ohne Worte from Igor Levit
John Wilson and his peerless orchestra’s latest marries the familiar and the scarcely known. And Mendelssohn’s romantic miniatures speak volumes for the star pianist

Fiona Maddocks

03, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Fantasia: Works by Bach, Liszt, Berg and Busoni album review – Igor Levit’s huge undertaking
Busoni’s hugely challenging Fantasia contrappuntistica is the climax of this two-cd set featuring works that balance musical freedom and formal rigour

Andrew Clements

06, Oct, 2023 @5:00 AM

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Classical home listening: Igor Levit takes on Tristan; an ideal John Adams primer
Levit ranges from Wagner to Henze with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, while Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich celebrate their artist-in-residence

Fiona Maddocks

17, Sep, 2022 @11:00 AM

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The week in classical: Igor Levit; Sean Shibe – review
The star pianist goes to the far side with Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson, while the Scots guitarist reins it in

Fiona Maddocks

09, Apr, 2022 @11:30 AM

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On DSCH: Shostakovich and Stevenson/Igor Levit | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Pairing Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH with Shostakovich’s equally epic 24 Preludes is a unique combination of rarity and virtuosity

Andrew Clements

09, Sep, 2021 @1:42 PM

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Classical music: Fiona Maddocks's 10 best of 2020
The year will be long remembered for recitals to an empty Wigmore Hall, car-park Puccini, Ravel as animation – and one man and his piano…

Fiona Maddocks

26, Dec, 2020 @7:00 PM

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Classical home listening: lockdown discs from Igor Levit, Daumants Liepiņš and Bayreuth
Levit’s double album of Bach, Brahms and Reger captures the lockdown mood

Fiona Maddocks

12, Dec, 2020 @12:00 PM

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Igor Levit review – Beethoven programme affirms deep affinity
The pianist’s dynamic, live-streamed performance had all the immediacy of his twitter house concerts that became a lockdown phenomenon

Rian Evans

17, Sep, 2020 @1:04 PM

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House music: Andrew Clements' watching and listening highlights
This week, Opera Harmony’s new socially distanced mini-operas, streaming from a scaled-down Salzburg, and the Proms revisits BBCSSO’s five-star Vaughan Williams

Andrew Clements

10, Aug, 2020 @4:41 PM

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Lockdown listening: classical music and opera to stream at home
With concert halls and opera houses closed, organisations and musicians across the world are livestreaming concerts and opening up their digital archives

Imogen Tilden

29, Jul, 2020 @11:15 AM

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