(I told you about Levit and the pianistic past.) Why? There are thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas to play. Why play a symphony, which ought to be heard from an orchestra? Liszt would never have ...

Or so called a critic about this particular sonata of Beethoven. That's how it got the name ... love hate relationship with these transcriptions. Igor Levit: I believe these are the greatest piano ...

Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows ...

In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas ... Goodyear and Igor Levit. Similarly, the Fugue is clear but careful. Although Brawn’s basic tempo ...

In considering an Artist of the Year, it is inevitable that we look beyond a contribution to the range of excellence on record, although Igor Levit’s complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...