Igor Levit — Tonhalle Zurich, 2014-10-21

Igor Levit was born 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky); in 1995 his family moved to Germany; he grew up with the piano (his mother is a pianist whose teacher had once studied with Heinrich Neuhaus), did his musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and finished with the best notes ever given by that institution. Aged 17, he was the youngest participant at the International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, in 2005; he won the second prize, plus several special awards, such as the special prize for chamber music, and the audience award…

Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues op.87

Dmitri Shostakovich, Preludes & Fugues op.87: comparison, recordings by Tatiana Nikolayeva (1962), Boris Petrushansky (1992/92), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1998), Konstantin Scherbakov (1999), and Alexander Melnikov (2009)

Lise de la Salle — Piano Recital, Baden/CH, 2016-12-10

Piano recital Lise de la Salle — Baden/CH, 2016-12-10: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.3 in C major, op.2/3 & Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, op.111; György Ligeti: 3 Etudes from “Études pour piano” (Nos.4, 2, 13); Johannes Brahms: Variations and Fugue for Piano on a Theme by Handel, op.24