Sony Classical announces the release of Pianist Igor Levit's third album - Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski. Available today, October 30, the album includes Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's Diabelli ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have never known a time when there wasn’t a young Russian or Moscow-trained pianist of promise on the scene. It is no different now. Twenty-four-year-old Daniil Trifonov, gold medalist of the ...

There’s a big hunk of the classical music audience that thrives upon the familiar. They like to hear things done the way they’re used to hearing them. You can argue with them that what they’re ...

Yesterday, though, the universally acclaimed Levit showed his paces at the familar core of the modern piano repertoire (albeit with a work that Bach conceived in 1741 as exercises for the two-manual ...

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) ...