Igor Levit - Encounter: Bach, Busoni, Brahms, Reger, Feldman (2020)
Igor Levit - Encounter: Bach, Busoni, Brahms, Reger, Feldman (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 215 Mb | Total time: 99:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439786572 | Recorded: 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 215 Mb | Total time: 99:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439786572 | Recorded: 2020
Igor Levit’s double album “Encounter” seeks sounds that give inner strength and support for the soul. In works by Bach to Max Reger, based on poignant vocal compositions, the desire for encounters and human togetherness is given expression – at a time when isolation is the order of the day. The result is a very personal recital.
The 33-year-old once again steps beyond the limits of pure piano repertoire: in the Busoni transcriptions of Bach’s chorale preludes and the late Brahms, which are rarely heard as complete cycles, Levit assumes the role of an organist who fills vast church spaces. In Johannes Brahms’s Vier ernste Gesänge, he lends instrumental eloquence to overcoming the torments of fearing death. On the other hand, the gentle shimmer produced from its very few notes makes Morton Feldman's extremely quiet work for piano, Palais de Mari (1986), the epitome of a sensuous, transcendental realm of possibilities.
The repertoire presented by Levit here reflects the album’s title. The works create a community of experience for many individuals forced to maintain distance from one another. They establish contact with religious and inward spirituality. In addition, the inner connections between the composers and their respective aesthetics make “Encounter” a journey offering astonishing discoveries, even on ostensibly familiar terrain.
“The restricted isolation in the weeks since mid-March 2020 was often difficult for me too. As an artist, however, I have never felt so free, so open in my life as on those days when I often only decided half an hour before the live stream what I would play in my house concerts,” reports Igor Levit. The complete absence of routine concert activity also had its positive sides: “Being able to make music without any compulsion and spontaneously choosing works in which all questions about love and death, loneliness and the possibility of real love for others are examined, has given my piano playing a level of freedom that I had never before experienced in this form.”
Performer:
Igor Levit, piano
Track List:
CD1:
Johann Sebastian Bach
arr. Ferruccio Busoni
01-10. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27
Johannes Brahms
arr. Ferruccio Busoni
11-16. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50
CD2:
Johannes Brahms
arr. Max Reger
01-04. Vier ernste Gesänge, Op.121
Max Reger
05. Nachtlied, Op.138/3
Morton Feldman
06. Palais de Mari
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Igor Levit - Encounter: Bach, Busoni, Brahms, Reger, Feldman (2020)
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