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Music

Igor Levit’s Goldbergs were transcendental

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

Igor Levit has rapidly achieved cult status, as he certainly deserves. He has already reached the stage where he can programme enormous and pretty obscure works, such as Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia. Clearly, Levit’s taste runs to large-scale works, but his recently released disc, Life, shows his command of shorter pieces too.

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