Igor Levit

Born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) to a Jewish family, Levit began playing piano at the age of three. He received piano lessons from his mother Elena Levit, a piano teacher, répétiteur and grand-disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus.{{Cite news |last=Luehrs-Kaiser |first=Kai |date=2013-08-27 |title=Klavier-Virtuose: Igor Levit nahm für Beethoven 32 Kilo ab |language=de |work=DIE WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/buehne-konzert/article119394773/Igor-Levit-nahm-fuer-Beethoven-32-Kilo-ab.html |access-date=2022-10-08}} As a child, he had his first successes on the concert stage in his hometown. His family moved to Hannover in 1995. From 1999 to 2000, he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hans Leygraf and, from 2000 to 2010, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Matti Raekallio and {{ill|Bernd Goetzke|de}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendiaten/solistenMaske.html?TID=20070328143439|title=Igor Levit|publisher=Deutsche-Stiftung-Musikleben|access-date=23 November 2011|archive-date=26 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426135154/http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendiaten/solistenMaske.html?TID=20070328143439|url-status=dead}}

Levit has appeared in major concert halls and music festivals around the world. During his studies, he won prizes in several international competitions including second prize at the International Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens (2004), first prize at the 9th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Hamamatsu (2004),{{cite web |date=2018 |title=Prizewinners of last Academies |url=https://www.actcity.jp/hacam/PianoAcademy/history/archives/ |publisher=Hamamatsu International Piano Academy |access-date=25 April 2018}} the second prize at the piano competition Kissinger Klavierolymp (2004),{{cite web|url=https://www.kissingersommer.de/en/programm/kissinger-klavierolymp/index.html|website=kissingersommer.de|language=en|title=The Kissinger Piano Olympics from 1st till 4th of October 2020|access-date=9 February 2020|archive-date=22 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922011253/https://www.kissingersommer.de/en/programm/kissinger-klavierolymp/index.html|url-status=dead}} the silver medal and three other awards at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (2005). In October 2011, he appeared in a 45-minute documentary aired on 3sat about his love for the music of Franz Liszt. He was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2011 to 2013.

Levit was appointed to a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media) starting in the winter semester 2019/2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmtm-hannover.de/de/aktuelles/meldungen/archiv/2019/maerz/artikel/igor-levit-wird-professor-fuer-klavier/|title=HMTM Hannover: Igor Levit wird Professor für Klavier|last=Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover|website=www.hmtm-hannover.de|language=de|access-date=5 April 2019}} In 2021, Levit contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist.{{Cite web|last=He|first=Richard S.|date=2021-09-10|title=Every Metallica Blacklist cover ranked from worst to best|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/every-metallica-blacklist-cover-ranked-from-worst-to-best|access-date=2021-10-24|website=loudersound|language=en}}

• 2009 Luitpold Prize for young artists at the Festival Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen{{cite web | title=Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben | website=Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben | date=28 March 2007 | url=http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendiaten/solistenMaske.html?TID=20070328143439 | language=de | access-date=24 September 2020 | archive-date=26 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426135154/http://www.deutsche-stiftung-musikleben.de/stipendiaten/solistenMaske.html?TID=20070328143439 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | title=IFF Hannover: Levit, Igor | website=IFF Hannover | url=https://www.iff.hmtm-hannover.de/de/meldungenarchiv/alumni-personen/levit-igor/ | language=de | access-date=24 September 2020}}
• 2017 Beethoven Ring{{cite news |date=18 December 2017 |title=Pianist Igor Levit erhält Beethoven-Ring |url=https://www.pizzicato.lu/pianist-igor-levit-erhalt-beethoven-ring/ |work=Pizzicato |location=Luxembourg |language=de |access-date=24 September 2020}}
• 2018 Gilmore Artist Award{{cite news |last=Cooper |first=Michael |date=3 January 2018 |title=The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/arts/music/igor-levit-gilmore-award.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=13 January 2018}}{{cite news |last=Duke |first=David Gordon |date=1 November 2018 |title=Visit offers rare chance to see renowned performer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51929486/igor-levit-duke/ |work=The Vancouver Sun |location=Vancouver |page=B5 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• 2020 Gramophone Classical Music Awards - Artist of the Year{{Cite web |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2020/artist-of-the-year |title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 - Artist of the Year |access-date=17 March 2024 }} and Instrumental Category Winner (Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas){{Cite web |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2020/instrumental |title=Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 - Instrumental |access-date=17 March 2024 }}
• 1 October 2020 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany{{cite web | author=SWR2 | title=Bundesverdienstkreuz für Bürger, Europäer und Pianist Igor Levit | website=swr.online | date=22 September 2020 | url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-klassik/bundesverdienstkreuz-fuer-levit-100.html | language=de | access-date=24 September 2020}}

During the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, Levit began streaming concerts from his home in Berlin Mitte. He posted these to Twitter as a series of Hauskonzerte:{{cite news |last=Maddocks |first=Fiona |date=24 May 2020 |title=Igor Levit: 'These concerts were life-saving for me' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/24/igor-levit-pianist-online-twitter-concerts-life-saving-lockdown-berlin |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=25 May 2020}}

• 12 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ('Waldstein')
• 13 March 2020: Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
• 14 March 2020:In Ross' article in The New Yorker (11 May 2020), Levit implied that he started posting Hauskonzerte on 12 March 2020. In the intro to the 2 May 2020 Hauskonzert, he made this explicit. Posts from 12 and 13 March are not accessible. Bach's Chaconne in a transcription for left hand by Brahms[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1238872339707813889 14 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
• 15 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 ('Appassionata')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1239249776010563590 15 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 20 May 2020. Also performed in the 22 April Hauskonzert.
• 17 March 2020:The 16 March 2020 Hauskonzert is not accessible. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia" ('Moonlight')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1239974860412973056 17 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
• 18 March 2020: Schubert's "Six moments musicaux"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1240633921903173633 18 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
• 19 March 2020: Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1240735602292686849 19 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
• 20 March 2020: Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1241061903562137600 20 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
• 21 March 2020: Schumann's Fantasie in C major, Op. 17[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1241424345005723653 21 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 22 March 2020: Shostakovich's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1241801954680078337 22 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 23 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1242149086578565123 23 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 24 March 2020: Arrangements of Bach's Nun komm' der heiden Heiland, BWV 659, and Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639; and Busoni's Berceuse, BV 252, and Fantasia nach Johann Sebastian Bach, BV 253[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1242511379690672130 24 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 25 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31/2 ('Tempest')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1242873780596281345 25 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 28 March 2020:The 26 and 27 March 2020 Hauskonzerte are not accessible. Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 570[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1243961028368572417 28 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
• 29 March 2020: Transcriptions of Mahler's Adagietto, Billy Joel's "And So It Goes", Frederic Rzewski's "A Mensch", and Frederic Weatherly's "Danny Boy"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1244308687432421380 29 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
• 30 March 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major, Op. 31/3[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1244671004598833157 30 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
• 31 March 2020: Liszt's Sonetto 123 del Petrarca in A-flat major; Brahms' Intermezzo in A major Op. 118/2; and Liszt's transcription of Wagner's "Isoldens Liebestod"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1245033691706949633 31 March 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
• 1 April 2020: Schubert's Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major and Allegretto in C minor, D. 915; Brahms' Ballade in B major, Op. 10/4[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1245403087889731588 01 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
• 2 April 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ('Waldstein'), streamed from the Schloss Bellevue concert room[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1245758003850235909 02 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
• 3 April 2020: Two of Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words"; Jobim's "Luiza"; Schumann's "{{interlanguage link|Du bist wie eine Blume|de}}"; and Janis Ian's "Stars"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1246120408128147459 03 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
• 4 April 2020: Solovyov-Sedoi & Matusovsky's "Moscow Nights"; Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1246482730604519424 04 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
• 5 April 2020: Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" (except "September")[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1246845722282078211 05 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. Levit notes in the intro to this post that this is the twenty-fifth Hauskonzert. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
• 6 April 2020: Tchaikovsky's "September" (from "The Seasons"); Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ('Pathétique')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1247207605199568902 06 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
• 7 April 2020: Satie's Gnossienne No. 3 and Gymnopédie No. 1; Fred Hersch's "Valentine"; and Beethoven's "Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio" in G major, Op. 129 ('Rage Over a Lost Penny')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1247570249291104261 07 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
• 8 April 2020: Shostakovich's 24 Preludes Op. 34[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1247932648024137729 08 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
• 9 April 2020: Three of Scott Joplin's Rags;"Original Rags", "Maple Leaf Rag", and "Peacherine Rag". Bolcom's "Graceful Ghost Rag"; Schubert's "Hungarian Melody"; and Curran's "For Cornelius"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1248294801382035456 09 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
• 10 April 2020: Dessau's "Guernica"; Rzewski's "Which Side Are You On?"; and Cardew's Thälmann Variations[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1248657170977173505 10 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
• 11 April 2020: Liszt's "Il penseroso" in C-sharp minor and Dante Sonata in D minor[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1249019190041853952 11 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
• 12 April 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1249381876776742913 12 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
• 13 April 2020: Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op. 120[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1249744968840876035 13 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
• 14 April 2020: Beethoven's 6 Variations in F major, Op. 34; and Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10/2[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1250108117804875779 14 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
• 15 April 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a ('les Adieux')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1250469206740606976 15 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
• 17 April 2020:Levit did not play a Hauskonzert on 16 April. He notes in the intro that this is Hauskonzert no. 36. Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1251194166606016512 17 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
• 18 April 2020: Schumann's Arabeske in C major, Op. 18; transcriptionTranscription by Ronald Stevenson, per Levit. of Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1251556506996260864 18 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
• 19 April 2020: Bach's "Contrapunctus I" from The Art of Fugue; Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1251918780982349826 19 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
• 20 April 2020: Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1252281125684285454 20 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 5 June 2020. As of this Hauskonzert, Levit moved his piano across the room "because my bicycle needed space" (Guardian interview, 24 May 2020). The sun sets while he's playing this piece: the room starts in light at 19.00 CEZ and ends in darkness at 20.30 CEZ (the sun set that day at 20.14 CEZ in Berlin).
• 21 April 2020: Alkan's Prelude No. 8 in A-flat minor, Op. 31 ('The Song of the Madwoman on the Seashore'); Hindemith's "Suite 1922"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1252643783621128193 21 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
• 22 April 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 ('Appassionata')[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1253014209430007808 22 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 7 June 2020. Also performed in the 15 March Hauskonzert.
• 23 April 2020: Liszt's "Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral aus Parsifal", S. 450; Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1253371759060975618 23 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
• 24 April 2020: Liszt's "O du mein holder Abendstern", S. 444; Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1253739303357775872 24 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
• 25 April 2020: Liszt's paraphrase of "Valhalla" (from Wagner's Das Rheingold); Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, Op. 103[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1254093309267652608 25 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
• 26 April 2020: Schumann's Theme and Variations in E-flat major for piano ('Geistervariationen'); Feldman's "Palais de Mari"[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1254455639922880517 26 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
• 27 April 2020: Reger's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by J.S. Bach", Op. 81[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1254818620833701888 27 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
• 28 April 2020: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2/2[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1255180648320512001 28 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
• 29 April 2020: Three of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words; Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques; Second movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1255542808171216896 29 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
• 30 April 2020: Beethoven's Ländler;Levit says in the intro that this Beethoven Ländler of "about 16 bars" has "just [been] found".{{cite quote|date=March 2021}} Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; Chopin's Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1255905503969935368 30 April 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
• 2 May 2020:There was no Hauskonzert on 1 May 2020. Levit tweeted that he was in Hanover that day to help celebrate NDR Radiophilharmonie's 70th anniversary. He notes in the intro that this is Hauskonzert no. 50. Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1256637069381820418 02 May 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
• 3 May 2020: Six of Brahms' Choral Preludes, Op. 122 (transcribed by Busoni)[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1256991871592738822 03 May 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
• 4 May 2020:Levit tweeted, "To gather strength from silence, not just music. I've been looking for a reason to 'stop', but there's no other than this: pause. Refill. Learn – and start again. And this 'again' will come soon. Therefore, tonight's 52nd house concert will be the last." Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31/1; Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1257362314954780677 04 May 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
• 24 May 2020:Levit posted no Hauskonzerte to Twitter from 5 May through 23 May. Ten of Bach's Chorale Preludes (transcribed by Busoni (BV B 27))[https://twitter.com/igorpianist/status/1264601933089734658 24 May 2020 Hauskonzert]. {{Twitter|id=igorpianist}}. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

Separately from these concerts, on 30/31 May 2020 Levit gave a solo performance of Vexations by Erik Satie, from a studio in Berlin, over a period of over 15 hours.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/arts/music/igor-levit-vexations.html | title='I Just Let Myself Go': Igor Levit on Surviving a Satie Marathon | work=The New York Times | last=Barone | first=Joshua | date=31 May 2020 | access-date=10 June 2020}}

In 2007, when he was 20 years old, Levit released his debut album, a set of Beethoven's piano concertos, with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl on Naxos records.{{citation | title=Piano concertos nos. 1 & 2 | year=2021 | oclc=1255419542}} In 2013, he released a two-disc set of Ludwig van Beethoven's late piano sonatas (Nos. 28 to 32), on Sony Classical Records.{{citation | last=Levit | first=Igor |title=Beethoven: the late piano sonatas | publisher=Sony Classical | year=2013 | oclc=1265416894}} His second Sony album, a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's six keyboard partitas, was named Gramophone Magazine's recording of the month for October 2014.{{cite web|title=Igor Levit, Piano|url=http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sony/88843036822|website=Presto Classical|access-date=15 October 2014}}{{cite book | title=Partitas BWV 825–830 | publisher=Sony Music Entertainment | year=2014 | oclc=1080919946}} His third Sony album, a 3-CD set of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, and The People United Will Never Be Defeated! by Frederic Rzewski, was released in October 2015.{{cite web|title=Igor Levit, Piano|url=http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Piano-Collection_000000000017977/item_Igor-Levit-J-S-Bach-Goldberg-Variations-Beethoven-Diabelli-Variations-Rzewski-The-United-People-Never-be-Defeated-3CD_6585753|website=HMV Japan|access-date=4 September 2015}}The Bach and the Beethoven CDs were released as single CDs in 2016. His fourth album was a 2-CD set released in 2018 entitled Life, including works by Busoni, Bach, Schumann, Rzewski, Wagner, Liszt, and Bill Evans.{{citation | title=Life | year=2018 | oclc=1089396971}} It was Levit's response to the death of his best friend, German artist {{ill|Hannes Malte Mahler|de}}, who died in a bicycle accident in 2016.{{cite news |last=Jeal |first=Erica |date=11 October 2018 |title=Igor Levit: Life review – pianist's transcendental meditation on grief |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/11/igor-levit-life-review-pianists-transcendental-meditation-on-grief |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=23 May 2020}}{{cite news |last=Blum |first=Ronald |date=17 March 2019 |title=Igor Levit not limited to the piano |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51929927/igor-levit-blum-ap/ |work=The Desert Sun |location=Palm Springs, California |page=C2 |agency=AP |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}

His recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas were released by Sony Classical on 13 September 2019.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/05/beethoven-complete-piano-sonatas-review Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas review – at his best, Levit is outstanding], The Guardian, 5 September 2019 Levit was named Gramophone's 2020 Artist of the Year.{{Cite web|date=2020-10-07|title=Igor Levit named Gramophone's Artist of the Year|url=https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/igor-levit-named-gramophones-artist-of-the-year/|access-date=2020-10-27|website=Pianist}} His recording On DSCH, pairing Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 with Ronald Stevenson's epic Passacaglia on DSCH, was issued by Sony in 2021.[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Oct/Shostakovich-preludes-19439809212.htm SONY 19439809212, reviewed at MusicWeb International]{{citation | title=Igor Levit on DSch | year=2021 | oclc=1287930470}}

• {{citation | last=Levit | first=Igor | title=Igor Levit Encounter | year=2020 | oclc=1199777487}} It "feature[s] arrangements by Busoni of chorale preludes by Bach [and by Brahms], Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge arranged by Reger, Reger's Nachtlied arranged by Julian Becker, and finally Palais de Mari, Morton Feldman's final work for solo piano."[https://www.amazon.com/Encounter-Igor-Levit/dp/B08BR1KBGL/ref=sr_1_2?crid=B5CXX90ZXLS2&keywords=igor+levit&qid=1701132790&s=music&sprefix=igor+l%2Cpopular%2C96&sr=1-2 Editorial Reviews]
• {{cite web | title=Paavo Järvi and Igor Levit perform Beethovens Piano Concerto No. 5 = Paavo Järvi und Igor Levit mit Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 | year=2020 | oclc=1296623187 | url=https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/53155 | ref={{sfnref | Paavo Järvi and Igor Levit perform Beethovens Piano Concerto No. 5 = Paavo Järvi und Igor Levit mit Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 | 2020}} | access-date=4 August 2022}}
• {{citation | title=The 2021 Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert : With Daniel Harding and Igor Levit | year=2021 | oclc=1334798677}}
• {{citation | title=Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Schumann and Beethoven – With Igor Levit : Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | year=2021 | oclc=1252973781}}
• {{citation | last=Levit | first=Igor | title=Tristan | year=2022}}. Tristan features Hans Werner Henze's Tristan, written for piano, electronic tapes, and orchestra; and, arranged for piano, Wagner's prelude to Tristan und Isolde and the Adagio from Mahler's Tenth Symphony.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/17/igor-levit-tristan-review-leipzig-gewandhaus-welser-most-john-adams-tonhalle-orchestra-zurich-jarvi Guardian]
• {{citation | last=Levit | first=Igor | title=Fantasia | year=2023}}. Fantasia features Bach, Liszt, Alban Berg, and Busoni.[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/arts/music/classical-music-albums-october.html?searchResultPosition=2 "Igor Levit's latest amazement"]

• {{cite book | last1=Levit | first1=Igor | last2=Zinnecker | first2=Florian| title=Hauskonzert | publisher=btb Verlag | publication-place=München | date=2022 | isbn=978-3-442-77173-8 | oclc=1309075504 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last1=Levit | first1=Igor | last2=Drake | first2=Carolyn | last3=Grätz | first3=Ronald | last4=Neubauer | first4=Hans-Joachim | title=Mein Leben mit der Gegenwart ein Gespräch | publication-place=Göttingen | date=2022 | isbn=978-3-96999-011-7 | oclc=1309976330 | language=de}}

• {{citation | title=Igor Levit, Mein Liszt | publisher=3Sat | year=2011 | oclc=918114930 | language=de}}
• Igor Levit: No Fear (in German), 2023 {{Citation |last=Schilling |first=Regina |title=Igor Levit: No Fear |date=2022-10-06 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21921812/ |type=Documentary |access-date=2023-07-10 |others=Igor Levit, Andreas Neubronner, Marina Abramovic |publisher=Zero One Film, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), ARTE}}

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• {{cite news |last=Swed |first=Mark |date=23 April 2015 |title=He holds 88 keys to the future |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51929764/igor-levit-swed/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles |page=23 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• {{cite news |last=Weininger |first=David |date=14 August 2016 |title=Continuous variation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51882989/igor-levit-weininger/ |work=The Boston Globe |location=Boston |page=N3 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• {{cite news |last=Duke |first=David Gordon |date=13 February 2016 |title=Emerging piano great takes his playlist personally |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51929670/igor-levit-duke-2016/ |work=The Vancouver Sun |location=Vancouver |page=65 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• {{cite news |last=Rhein |first=John von |date=14 March 2017 |title=Pianist Igor Levit makes formidable Orchestra Hall debut |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51930068/igor-lewit-rhein/ |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago |page=4-2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• {{cite magazine |last=McIntosh |first=Fergus |date=20 November 2018 |title=Close At Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/close-at-hand-with-the-pianist-igor-levit |magazine=The New Yorker |location=New York City |access-date=23 May 2020}}
• {{cite news |last=Welscher |first=Hartmut |date=19 February 2020 |title=Winner Takes All |url=https://van-us.atavist.com/winner-takes-all |work=VAN Magazine |location=Berlin |access-date=28 May 2020 |archive-date=13 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513134514/https://van-us.atavist.com/winner-takes-all |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite news |last1=Pirich |first1=Carolin |last2=Stuff |first2=Britta |date=10 September 2020 |title=Rock Bottom: Navigating the Corona Crisis with Pianist Extraordinaire Igor Levit |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/rock-bottom-navigating-the-corona-crisis-with-pianist-extraordinaire-igor-levit-a-27a4cb20-360f-48d0-927a-ee9cf50b79ae |work=Spiegel International |location=Hamburg |access-date=15 October 2020}}

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