Igor Levit — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2017-06-08
Concert review, Piano Recital Igor Levit @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2017-06-08 — Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): 24 Preludes and Fugues, op.87
All just my personal opinion
Concert review, Piano Recital Igor Levit @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2017-06-08 — Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975): 24 Preludes and Fugues, op.87
Concert review, Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-12-13: Trio Zimmermann playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, arranged for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky (*1954)
Piano recital Kit Armstrong — Baden/CH, 2016-02-26: Byrd, «Hugh Ashton’s Ground»; Sweelinck, «Mein junges Leben hat ein End’»; Bull, «Walsingham»; Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Concert Review, Greifensee, 2016-01-23: Daniel Behle, Schnyder Trio — Schubert: Winterreise (version for tenor and piano trio by Daniel Behle)
… while for the past two decades the artist is mostly pictured with an earnest, maybe “Beehovenian” / titanic, somewhat closed facial expression, in the concert (which he presented with a mostly relaxed, yet controlled body language) his face hinted at a wealth of emotions — and his playing struck me as a prime example of the “big Russian Piano School” …
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.22 in F major, op.54 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Wilhelm Backhaus (1969), Paul Badura-Skoda (1969), Daniel Barenboim (1984), Ronald Brautigam (2007), Friedrich Gulda (1967), Maurizio Pollini (2003), Artur Schnabel (1935)