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Classical Music

Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall

On 05 Nov 15, 7:30 PM – 9:45 PM

The startling pianist - praised as a revolutionary player - returns to Wigmore Hall to play Beethoven's Diabelli Variations

By CW Contributor on 7/9/2015

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Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall Joe Lloyd
It takes a brave soul to record Beethoven’s dizzyingly complex late sonatas as your first release, but pianist Igor Levit did just that. The Russian-German virtuoso, a favourite at Wigmore Hall, has drawn the sort of accolades that would make anyone blush. Ivan Hewitt at The Telegraph put him “in a class of his own”, while in the words of the LA Times’ Mark Swed “He is the future.”
For the Wigmore Hall 2015/16 season, he will play a series of concerts entitled Perspectives. The first, this November, takes in three remarkably diverse pieces. First, there is Georg Muffat’s Passacaglia in G Minor (1690), a baroque keyboard showpiece that melds French and German influences. It will be followed by Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2 (1943), a romantically-inspired soundscape that has been unfairly unshadowed by his great war symphonies.
The main attraction, however, is undoubtably Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (1819-23). Generally considered, along with Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the height of their form, these thirty-three miniatures demonstrate an unparalleled variety; the penultimate fugue’s key change is one of the most powerful ever written. Such a ceaseless experimentor as Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire) called them “the most adventurous work by Beethoven.” Under Levit’s hands, this looks to be an unmissable performance. Book now – only a handful of tickets remain.

What Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall
Where Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP | MAP
Nearest tube Bond Street (underground)
When On 05 Nov 15, 7:30 PM – 9:45 PM
Price £5-36
Website Click here to book via Wigmore Hall



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    "Levit took it all on with astonishing aplomb and sometimes scarcely believable accuracy. And he coped equally calmly with the even more extreme demands of the pieces."

    Andrew Clements

    THE TELEGRAPH

    "every note in Levit’s performance was fastidiously placed, and every phrase beautifully sculpted: it was like listening to a speech by a master-orator who never needs to raise his voice."

    Michael Church

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