RECITAL

Park Avenue Armory
Igor Levit - Piano

All-Beethoven Program
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Below is a great review of the performance we attended. 

http://nyti.ms/1qAvlqf

Again, we had the very best of seats.  We were key board, right hand, 7 feet away.  We could see and feel the full effort he made.  It was special.

This is a video of one of the sonatas we heard.  Our view of his face and hands was this close!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfoAQXKqzJ4

http://igor-levit.de/?lang=en

"I've written a piece in the Spectator this week that they've published online under the heading "Music to listen to when you've broken up with a precious friend". Ironically (clue) the music I have in mind is for the piano: the slow movement of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata played by a young genius called Igor Levit who already belongs in the apostolic succession of Schnabel, Backhaus, Kempff, Mrs Mills, Brendel, Kovacevich…

Levit's new CD of the last five Beethoven piano sonatas. I must have 20 recordings of those works, but this I keep returning to. Levit (b. 1987) has the pin-sharp technique of a musician in his 20s, combined with fresh ideas about structure and – employing freakish polyphonic finger-control – a relish for throwing out splashes of colour worthy of Jackson Pollock. My only question is: when you've conquered the summit of the piano repertoire at 26, where do you go next?"

“Levit’s recital revealed the links between Beethoven’s [sonatas] and hailed the emergence of an exciting new talent.” 
—The Guardian (London)

With a recent five-star performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall that “shows he is set to be one of this century’s big names” (The Telegraph, UK), pianist Igor Levit makes his North American recital debut with a program of Beethoven’s most cherished sonatas performed in the most intimate of settings.