Evening Concert

It’s an “Igor Levit Piano Recital” from Bonn on the “Evening Concert”

 

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 pianist Igor Levit play Bach’s Ricercar à 3 from "A Musical Offering," and the Contrapunctus I, IV and XI from "Art of the Fugue”.  Also on the program Busoni’s “Fantasy after Johann Sebastian Bach”.

Wednesday, March 7: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 17/18, No. 10)

Igor Levit Piano Recital

Location: Church of the Cross, Bonn;

Igor Levit, piano  Isang Enders, cello (4,5)
(1) BUSONI: Fantasy after Johann Sebastian Bach, BV 253 (16:16)
(2) BACH: Ricercar à 3 from "A Musical Offering," BWV 1079 (06:06)
(3) KERLL: Passacaglia in D Minor (07:35)
(4) SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata in D Minor for cello and piano, op. 40, 3rd movement (04:13)
(5) BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 3 in A Major for cello and piano, op. 69, 1st and 2nd movements (16:31)
(6) BACH: Contrapunctus I, IV and XI from "Art of the Fugue," BWV 1080 (14:34)
(7) BUSONI: Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256 (34:58)
(8) BACH: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, adapted for piano by Ferruccio Busoni (encore) (05:08)

Recorded by Deutsche Welle, Bonn (DW) in the Church of the Cross in Bonn on September 28, 2017