Life – Igor Levit

Bach / Busoni Fantasie BWV 253
Bach / Brahms Chaconne aus BWV 1004
Rzewski A Mensch aus Dreams I
Schumann Variationen in E flat major “Geister-Variationen”
Wagner / Liszt Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus Parsifal
Meyerbeer / Liszt Fantasie & Fuge über den Choral “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”
Busoni Berceuse aus Elegien op. 7
Bill Evans Peace Piece

Igor Levit

Format: 2 CD
Release date: 5/10/2018
Barcode: 0889854244521 Categories: , ,

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   in Piano International (Jan, 2019)
Igor Levit’s latest 2-CD album is a sufficiently epic achievement to make even his finest rivals sound small-minded by comparison. The underlying theme of Life is the journey from the earthly to the seraphic, ‘music whose bleak grandeur and melancholy beauty’ is lovingly chosen by Levit as solace after the death of a close friend.

Busoni’s Fantasia after JS Bach gives us one composer through the prism of another, an elegy in memory of Busoni’s father. Indeed, Busoni is the presiding presence in this extraordinary album, and never more so than in his outsize setting of Liszt’s organ Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’, …

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