I admired this new release by the brilliant young pianist Igor Levit even before I’d heard a note of it, if only because of the overdue gesture of placing the greatest keyboard variation set of the ...

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Making his Santa Barbara debut last Thursday, March 9, at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, Igor Levit gave a masterful concert that featured compositions by Frederic Rzewski and Beethoven.

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 ...

Igor Levit rarely does anything small. The acclaimed Russian-Jewish-German pianist raised eyebrows as a 26-year-old when, for his Sony Classical debut in 2013, he tackled Beethoven’s last five piano ...

It’s common practice in the classical-music world — and an often annoying one — to introduce young soloists by reeling off a litany of their competition prizes, strung together like a list of battles ...

Igor Levit seemed to come out of nowhere. Largely unknown at the time of his 2013 debut recording of the last five Beethoven sonatas, the pianist has racked up a nearly unbroken string of accolades ...

The 30-year-old Russian-born, Berlin-based pianist Igor Levit last Wednesday received the 2018 Gilmore Artist Award. Like the MacArthur “genius” awards, the $300,000 prize (given every four years) ...