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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Igor Levit - Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev

Igor Levit - Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev

02/04/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Igor Levit - Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev

From Wigmore Hall, Igor Levit in piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev.

Christopher Cook introduces Igor Levit in a piano recital from the Wigmore Hall, London. With music by Bach, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Schubert.

Live from Wigmore Hall, Igor Levit, one of today's most exciting keyboard talents, scales some of the heights of the pianist's repertoire.
A BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Igor Levit has engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic and many other leading orchestras in his diary but here he presents a brilliantly conceived solo recital with a late Beethoven sonata at its heart. This Beethoven sonata looks both backwards to Baroque music and also seems to point forwards to the twentieth century and 'music as noise,' an idea explored in parts of the second of Prokofiev's so-called War Sonatas. It was Franz Liszt who championed both the music of Beethoven and also that of his Viennese contemporary, Franz Schubert and it is Liszt's transcriptions and reworkings of some of Schubert's most famous songs which opens the second half of Igor Levit's fascintaing programme.
Presented by Christopher Cook

Igor Levit (piano)

Bach: Capriccio in B flat BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109

Schubert:Allegretto in C minor D915

c. 8.05pm
During the interval Christopher Cook highlights a few pieces which, like Bach's Capriccio which begins tonight's concert, feature the evocative sound of the post horn.

c.8.30pm
Schubert/Liszt: Du bist die Ruh S558 No. 3
Schubert/Liszt: Aufenthalt S560 No. 3
Schubert/Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu singen S558 No. 2
Schubert/Liszt: Der Wanderer S558 No. 11

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83.

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