The latest mammoth release by Igor Levit, a new symphonic work by John Luther Adams and music by William Grant Still are among the highlights. The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometime before Christmas, I saw that Igor Levit would be playing a recital in Carnegie Hall on January 22. (He is the Soviet-born pianist who did most of his growing up in Germany.) When I saw his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who’d have thought that Igor Levit and Christian Thielemann would be such effective partners? Levitt is one of the most cerebral and thoughtful of pianists with a string of excellent Sony albums, and ...

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, ...