One of music history’s most haunting images is also one of its most revealing: Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly deaf, still bent over a score, still filling page after page with ideas that would outlive ...

Andrew McGregor with the best new classical releases. c2.10pm Andrew is joined by guest reviewer Jeremy Sams, theatre director, translator and composer, to consider some of his favourite new releases.

Igor Levit is the protagonist of the third event of the Piano Festival, scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2026 (8:00 PM) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. A prominent figure on the contemporary ...

Sometime before Christmas, I saw that Igor Levit would be playing a recital in Carnegie Hall on January 22. (He is the Soviet-born pianist who did most of his growing up in Germany.) When I saw his ...

Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sabienna Bowman is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE, working on the News Team. She joined the brand in 2023.

Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — again. On Monday, Jan. 27, the U.K. newspaper The Times announced that Levit, 37, will attempt to play composer Erik Satie’s ...

Recorded voice of usher: Where to? Carnegie Hall, please. Okay, here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Your tickets, please. Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: Oh, you hear the sound of the orchestra tuning up ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s never been a better time to buy a couple of extra tickets to The Cleveland Orchestra. Not one but four stellar soloists took the stage at Severance Music Center on Wednesday, ...

The latest mammoth release by Igor Levit, a new symphonic work by John Luther Adams and music by William Grant Still are among the highlights. The Salzburg Festival is synonymous with excellence and ...

A fly-on-the-wall documentary following pianist Igor Levit (who will appear at Princeton University Concerts on October 30 and November 3) from the final recordings of his Beethoven piano sonata cycle ...

Igor Levit has become one of the “one of the essential artists of his generation” (The New York Times). Nine years after his Princeton University Concerts debut, he returns at long last with a program ...

On March 28, 1949, at Times Hall, in midtown Manhattan, an unexpectedly large crowd materialized to hear the Juilliard Quartet play the second part of a two-concert survey of the six string quartets ...