Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Igor Levit (piano)
Levit's Diabelli Variations brim with exuberance, vitality and often humour, tumbling into one another with unstoppable energy but with such lightning-like shifts of character that the overall...
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Igor Levit (piano)
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Levit's Diabelli Variations brim with exuberance, vitality and often humour, tumbling into one another with unstoppable energy but with such lightning-like shifts of character that the overall...
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Levit is particularly at ease with the piano works of Beethoven. He is currently performing a Beethoven cycle at the Wigmore Hall where he is performing all Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas over 8 concerts. The Diabelli Variations form part of Beethoven’s later output and is recorded here by Levit; “Not since Andreas Staier’s version on fortepiano for Harmonia Mundi has there been such a riveting dissection of Beethoven’s amused quirkiness” (BBC Music Magazine).
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16th October 2016
Levit's Diabelli Variations brim with exuberance, vitality and often humour, tumbling into one another with unstoppable energy but with such lightning-like shifts of character that the overall experience is exhilarating and exhausting.
14th October 2015
[A] sense of freshness and discovery runs through his Diabelli Variations...one of the most impressive aspects of the performance as a whole is how Levit holds the different aspects of this massive work in balance.
4th December 2015
He characterises [the Diabellis] with rambunctious glee, brilliantly incisive and as nimble as a cat on a high wire, while keeping the music’s overall arch in sight...One imagines Beethoven playing it like this — in his dreams, anyway.
