Last night, playing the variations, Levit did some crying out and whistling. I can’t remember hearing him do this before. In any event, if Eileen Farrell had “a right to sing the blues,” Igor Levit ...

While the semiquincentennial will receive one kind of fireworks show on the National Mall later this summer, Igor Levit brought his own pyrotechnics to his recital Sunday evening. Washington ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick For his latest Carnegie Hall appearance, Levit played solo piano transcriptions of symphonic works by Mahler and Beethoven. By Oussama ...

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 is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — again. On Monday, Jan. 27, the U.K. newspaper The Times announced that Levit, 37, will attempt to play composer Erik Satie’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Russian-born pianist Igor Levit dropped in to play Beethoven at the Tiny Desk, he admitted he was – even after four cups of coffee – "still in my time zone change." A little jet-lagged, he had ...