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

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Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sebastian Reuter/Getty Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — ...

For most professional musicians, lockdown was the most miserable time of their lives. In early 2020 the curtain abruptly came down on a lifetime of rehearsal and performance. Why practise if there’s ...

'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 ...

In the doomscrolling vortex that was Twitter in the first month and a half of the pandemic, pianist Igor Levit made his page an oasis of stability. Most evenings from March 12 to May 2, 2020, the ...

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, ...

Running into jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh in the street, I ask if she’s streaming like almost every other pianist in the business during the coronavirus pandemic. She replies that of all the possible ...