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 ...

'All I can do is help the pain of my people through music': Igor Levit - Felix Broede/ Sony Classical On October 7, the renowned German-Jewish pianist Igor Levit – who at 36 has just become the ...

When the German pianist, Igor Levit was selected as the featured soloist of the Nobel Prize ceremony last month, it marked yet another grace note in a career that's quickly grown filled with awards ...

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, ...

FILE - Russian-German pianist Igor Levit and French conductor Stephane Deneve with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor Concerto) during the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pianist Igor Levit, the San Francisco Symphony's Artist-in-Residence for the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The pianist returned to Carnegie Hall with the first complete performance of the 24 Preludes and Fugues there. By Seth Colter Walls The ...

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 ...