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 ...

'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 ...

This moment of levity – no pun intended – came as a deft coda to a Herculean evening of performance, in which he wrestled with three well-known big beasts of the piano repertoire and introduced a ...

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 ...

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, ...