Igor Levit / Piano Recital
- Classical Music
He has become something of a travel guide through the often rocky and impassable terrain of Beethoven’s music. With his recording of all 32 Beethoven sonatas and the accompanying podcast, Igor Levit has developed into one of the best Beethoven interpreters and mediators of our time. It is absolutely logical that he is now venturing out of the carefully scrutinised cosmos of works originally written for piano and into more unexplored territory: Beethoven’s symphonies in the versions by piano virtuoso Franz Liszt – which were actually considered unplayable – are the common thread running through Levit’s current season. And who could be better suited to scaling these symphonic mountains than the exceptional pianist? After Brahms’ four ballads , his fingers should definitely be warm...
PERFORMERS
Igor Levit piano
PROGRAM
Johannes Brahms
Vier Balladen, Op. 10
Ludwig van Beethoven / Franz Liszt
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
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