Igor Levit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Igor Levit to play 20-hour Eric Satie piece as 'silent scream'
German-Russian pianist to tackle ‘Vexations’ to highlight plight of artists hit by lockdowns
Kate Connolly in Berlin
30, May, 2020 @3:28 PM
Igor Levit: 'These concerts were life-saving for me'
The pianist on how his Twitter concerts became an internet sensation, his fears for the future of live music – and life in lockdown Berlin
Fiona Maddocks
24, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Guardian view on music and pandemics: the global prisoners’ chorus
Editorial: As the Covid-19 virus has taken hold, human beings have turned to singing and music. We are expressing an eternal need for harmony
Editorial
22, Mar, 2020 @7:10 PM
Classical music: let the Berlin Phil come to you
With concert halls and opera houses closed, we sample the stay-at-home alternatives from Budapest to Dar es Salaam
Nicholas Kenyon
21, Mar, 2020 @12:00 PM
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