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Artists
- Igor Levitpiano
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Igor Levit
Image credit: © Felix Broede
Archived Event
- Date
- Sun 25 Sep 2022, 7.30pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Johannes Brahms1833-1897
- 11 Chorale Preludes Op. 122:
- Herzlich tut mich erfreuen (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Herzlich tut mich verlangen (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Herzlich tut mich verlangen (second setting) (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- O Welt, ich muss dich lassen (transcribed by Ferruccio Busoni)
- Fred Herschb. 1955
- Variations on a Folk Song
Interval
- Richard Wagner1813-1883
- Tristan und Isolde:
- Prelude (transcribed by Zoltán Kocsis)
- Franz Liszt1811-1886
- Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Encore
- Robert Schumann1810-1856
- Kinderszenen Op. 15:
- Der Dichter spricht
Overview
Composed in 1896, just one year before the composer’s death, Brahms’s 11 Chorale Preludes for organ were published posthumously six years later; Busoni immediately transcribed four of them for piano. Igor Levit also includes his late Hungarian pianist colleague’s Wagner transcription, and a set of variations by the multi-award winning jazz pianist which he premièred at Carnegie Hall in January.