Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Boredom is profound’: next month, virtuoso Igor Levit will perform Vexations by Erik Satie - Peter Rigaud Next month, one of ...

Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — again. On Monday, Jan. 27, the U.K. newspaper The Times announced that Levit, 37, will attempt to play composer Erik Satie’s ...

Over the weekend, Igor Levit pulled off an amazing feat, or stunt, you might say. Levit, recall, is the Russian-German pianist born in 1987. He played Vexations, a little, half-page piece by Satie.

From one page of sheet music, Russian-German pianist Igor Levit will create a near day-long event. In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit ...

There are recordings and then there are deeds. Igor Levit likes deeds. During the lockdown phase of the pandemic, Levit live-streamed nightly recitals from his Berlin apartment, for good measure ...

Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky. By Joshua Barone, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, ...