Igor Levit: Bach, Brahms & Beethoven
Prepare for a programme of brilliant and beguiling pianism as this celebrated performer shows sides of three great composers that are rarely seen.
Enjoy an evening that unites dazzling pianism and evocative romanticism in the hands of one of today’s most compelling performers, Igor Levit.
He opens with JS Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, which offers a dazzling display of intricate keyboard writing. Brahms’ Ballades Op.10, virtually songs without words, begin with the composer translating a poem of gothic horror, ‘Edward, Edward’, into pure music, rugged and elementally powerful.
Finally Levit’s piano takes over the role of a full orchestra in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, in Franz Liszt’s virtuoso transcription.
Performers
Igor Levit piano
Repertoire
Bach: Chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor, BWV.903
Brahms: 4 Ballades, Op.10
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 arr. Liszt for piano
Need to know
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‘The arrival of Igor Levit added a new personality to the top echelon of pianists. Here was a musician motivated by setting himself the most challenging intellectual goals and taking his audiences with him’
Financial Times
‘A pianist of unflinching intellectual rigour and breathtaking technique’
Gramophone
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This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
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