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Igor Levit

May 2024

  • Renaud Capuçon, Igor Levit and Julia Hagen on stage.

    The week in classical: Igor Levit, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Hagen; Manchester Camerata: Disruptors review – ringing successes

    Three soloists collaborate to singular effect playing Brahms, while vibrant works old and new are performed by the Camerata ensemble

February 2024

  • Adam Pounds, right, with John Wilson (IMG 2661), by Fiona Pounds, Courtesy of Adam Pounds

    Home listening
    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

October 2023

  • Igor Levit … balance of freedom and rigour.

    Fantasia: Works by Bach, Liszt, Berg and Busoni album review – Igor Levit reaches his final destination

    Busoni’s hugely challenging Fantasia contrappuntistica is the climax of this two-cd set featuring works that balance musical freedom and formal rigour

September 2022

  • Paavo Järvi and John Adams

    Home listening
    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

April 2022

  • Igor Levit receives a standing ovation after the first of last week’s two Wigmore Hall recitals.Sophia Evans for The Observer

    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

September 2021

  • Quiet mastery ... Igor Levit performing in 2021.

    On DSCH: Works by Shostakovich and Stevenson review – Levit’s spectacular wild ride

    Pairing Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH with Shostakovich’s equally epic 24 Preludes is a unique combination of rarity and virtuosity

December 2020

  • Igor Levit house concert 28 April 2020

    Observer critics' review of 2020
    Classical music: Fiona Maddocks's 10 best of 2020

  • Igor Levit.

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: lockdown discs from Igor Levit, Daumants Liepiņš and Bayreuth

September 2020

  • Igor Levit at the Wigmore Hall, September 2020

    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

August 2020

  • In close confines ... Opera Harmony 05 The Den.

    House music
    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

July 2020

  • Dress rehearsal of Curlew River at  St. Giles church, Cripplegate in London on  Tuesday 12 Nov. 2013.
Photo by Mark Allan

    Lockdown culture
    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

May 2020

  • Pianist Igor Levit.

    Igor Levit to play 20-hour Eric Satie piece as 'silent scream'

  • Igor Levit photographed by Felix Broede

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Igor Levit: 'These concerts were life-saving for me'

March 2020

  • Neighbours play usic from the windows in Florence

    The Guardian view on music and pandemics: the global prisoners’ chorus

  • The Royal Opera House, London, which closed after the outbreak of Corona virus in the UK. Photographed 18 March 2019

    Home listening
    Classical music: let the Berlin Phil come to you

February 2020

  • Markus Becker and Igor Levit

    Igor Levit/Markus Becker review – technically faultless but strangely lacking impact

  • Igor Levit plays Shostakovich at The Barbican, for New Review, 26/01/2020.
Sophia Evans for The Observer

    The week in classical: Igor Levit; BBC SO/ Saraste; OAE/ Norrington – review

September 2019

  • Schubertiade Festival 2019

    Schubertiade festival review – Levit and Feng dazzle amid outstanding talent

    The festival sticks closely to its relatively narrow musical margins, but with world-class musicians offering fresh insights into familiar works, there was plenty to intrigue and move audiences

June 2019

  • Kristina Opolais in the title role, with Bryn Terfel  as Scarpia, in Tosca at the Royal Opera House

    The week in classical: Tosca; Orchestra of Santa Cecilia/Pappano; Igor Levit – review

    Bryn Terfel’s terrifying Scarpia is the main draw in the Royal Opera’s latest Tosca. Elsewhere, Igor Levit is in total command

May 2019

  • Igor Levit

    Igor Levit review – astonishing performance of a phenomenally taxing masterpiece

    It’s hard to imagine Ronald Stevenson’s monumental piano work Passacaglia on DSCH has ever been played better
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