Name: Igor Levit Special Event
Start: 2024-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

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Igor Levit Special Event

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Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

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Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

Ballades, Op. 10

Symphony No.7 in A Major, op. 92 (arr. Franz Liszt)

Jnanakumar P

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Here is behind-the-scenes footage of Igor Levit recording Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, for his new album "Fantasia."

Stream and order the album “Fantasia” here: https://igorlevit.lnk.to/fantasiaAY

Subscribe to Igor Levit’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@igorlevit251...

On his new double album, Fantasia, Igor Levit performs four paradigmatic works spanning a period of almost two centuries from 1720 to 1910. For Igor Levit these works “have something incredibly expansive about them, their frequent intimacy notwithstanding. They are not only emotional but also instrumental.”

Levit has chosen Ferrucio Busoni’s Bach-inspired Fantasia Contrappuntistica and paired it with J.S. Bach’s exceptional Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor. He also selected Franz Liszt’s B minor Sonata, a highly charged piece that at the time of its composition looked far ahead into the future (which Levit is currently performing to great acclaim all over the world), together with Alban Berg’s only Piano Sonata Op. 1. 

These four major works are complemented by four shorter pieces including Alexander Siloti’s arrangement of the famous Air from Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite, Liszt’s transcription of Schubert’s song Der Doppelgänger, Busoni’s Nuit de Noël and an early piano piece in B minor by Berg.
 
Video Director: Boris Fromageot

Igor Levit - Recording Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor

Igor Levit has become one of the “one of the essential artists of his generation” (The New York Times). Nine years after his Princeton University Concerts debut, he returns at long last with a program that combines his trademark interpretations of J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms’ music with Liszt’s colossal transcription of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony — “Forget four-hands piano: Levit seemed to be playing with six or eight. He generated the breadth, force and baffling volume of a full orchestra,” wrote The New York Times following his performance of another Beethoven symphony at Carnegie Hall last season. Now we have the glorious opportunity of witnessing this transformation of the instrument by one of the most awe-inspiring pianists of our time.

DON’T MISS IT: Igor Levit will also discuss his political activism in an event permeated by performance on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 3PM. We highly recommend attending both events for the most comprehensive encounter with this extraordinary artist.

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Igor Levit Special Event by Bach, J. S., Brahms, Beethoven, -tól (2024/2024), Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton, United States

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