Igor Levit
Wigmore Hall, 16th September 2020
Considering this was my first time seeing Igor Levit play “in the flesh”, his Wigmore Hall recital was just like meeting an old friend. The Russian-born German pianist has been on my screens and in my headphones more than any other pianist during the crazy last six months. His House Concerts, broadcast from his Berlin flat, stemmed from a spur of the moment decision returning from the grocery store (“Typical Igor – act first, think later”) and spanned 52 consecutive evenings. His marathon stream of Erik Satie’s Vexations, a single page of manuscript but performed 840 times, lasted 15 hours).
Igor Levit
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