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Carnegie Hall Presents

Igor Levit, Piano

Sunday, January 12, 2025 2 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
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Igor Levit by Felix Broede
“Igor Levit is always persuasive, giving even the most standard repertory the spark of revelation,” The New York Times writes of his “sumptuously glamorous” recording of J. S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue that opens this matinee recital. Within the four emotional piano works that comprise Brahms’s Ballades, Op. 10, an alluring wealth of interpretive possibilities await, while Beethoven’s kinetic Seventh Symphony—arranged for solo piano by Liszt—is a grand and utterly engrossing musical world unto itself.

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Igor Levit, Piano

Program

J. S. BACH Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

BRAHMS Ballades, Op. 10

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 (arr. Liszt)


Encore:

J. S. BACH Chorale Prelude on "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland," BWV 659 (arr. Busoni)

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission. 

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J. S. BACH  Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

Bach’s carefully structured Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue follows a logical order that arranges the material in two main sections of roughly equal length: a quasi-improvisatory Fantasia and a demanding Fugue in which the independently moving lines thrust themselves to attention out of the polyphonic texture.

 

BRAHMS  Ballades, Op. 10

In keeping with the literary influences of the Romantic period in which he was born, Brahms takes the ballade, or narrative poetry, as inspiration. Unlike the Romantic lieder for vocalist and piano, these are evocative pieces for solo piano.

 

BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (arr. Liszt)

Liszt condenses Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony to its most essential components, adding as little as possible and capturing as much as the piano would allow. Liszt also marks Beethoven’s original instrumentation in parts of the score to guide the pianist’s interpretation, allowing the listener to appreciate the inner voicings of the original symphony.

Bios

Igor Levit

With an alert and critical mind, Igor Levit places his art in the context of social events and understands it as inseparably linked to them. The New York Times describes Mr. Levit as one of the “most important artists of his generation.” In 2018, he was named the eighth recipient of the  ...

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