Fiona Maddocks’s 10 moments
mainAt the bleak ending of a near-empty year, the Observer music critic finds 10 glimmers of light.
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Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs Igor Levit’s seventh-grade-piano level attention whoring, and if that’s the best that Fiona Maddocks can do then she has jumped the shark too. Take this unshaven, scheming, needy man and his spare tire off my screen.
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Ah ! are people only entitled to an opinion provided it coincides with yours , NL ? On any view , the behaviour of Levit on the bit of film above is bizarre
Norman Lebrecht got his publisher sued for libel because apparently he couldn’t keep his facts straight. Good luck expecting him to maintain any kind of standards in this blog.
The arraigned to assume you have the right to speak for everyone else.
I’ll decide exactly what I need and don’t need. And I won’t be taking advice from some nobody on the internet.
This is the essential article for everyone who wants to know more about Igor PogorLevit: https://van-us.atavist.com/winner-takes-all
Terrific article — very interesting even beyond Levit, in whom my interest is marginal at best. Highly recommended to everyone who visits this site. Thank you for linking it.
“…I won’t be taking advice from some nobody on the internet.”
Really? You already are!!!
Wigmore Hall did truly a great job. Free streaming, fine, honest music making ( no attention -seeking antics). They also published the lieder texts on the occasion of each recital. I hope the donations were many and generous.
It’s fun ! … although I wished for better pedaling. I heard his piano bench will be on sale soon st eBay.
This video shows exactly what I really would prefer to all those Beethoven pieces and the rest….! Only THEN concerts get something interesting to look at.
Sally
I’m sure Mr Levit would be able to play ‘Palais de Mari’ in that position, if he only could fynd a way to sit on the pedals.
Well, maybe experiment with playing Beethoven late piano sonatas, WITHOUT a piano ; just as Beethoven heard it !? That would combine authentic period interpretation combined with avant-garde fun !
It doesn’t actually matter what top 10 or top 20 picks there are for anything. The world is much bigger than any one article, and frankly, becomes forgotten tomorrow. Perhaps Mr. Levit was just having fun. What does matter on a deeper level, over time, is what we create to continue the evolution music, be it performances, recordings, cultivating new music, during good times, as well as times like 2020, and what people will utilize and/or remember in 50-100 years. Everything else becomes diluted over time.
Embarrassing moment.