Igor Levit - Encounter '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
01. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 1, Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist,
BWV 667
02. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 2, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV
645
03. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 3, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
04. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 4, Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein,
BWV 734
05. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 5, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV
639
06. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 6, Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel
auf, BWV 617
07. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 7a, Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt,
BWV 637
08. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 7b, Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt.
Fuga, BWV 705
09. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 8, In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
10. 10 Chorale Preludes, BV B 27: No. 9, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665
11. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich erfreuen, Op. 122/4
12. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 122/5
13. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Op. 122/8
14. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/9
15. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122/10
16. 6 Chorale Preludes, BV B 50: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122/11

CD2
01. Vier ernste Gesänge: Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh, Op. 121/1
02. Vier ernste Gesänge: Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle, Op. 121/2
03. Vier ernste Gesänge: O Tod, wie bitter bist du, Op. 121/3
04. Vier ernste Gesänge: Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete,
Op. 121/4
05. Nachtlied, Op. 138/3 (Transcription for Piano)
06. Palais de Mari



'The new album ENCOUNTER by IGOR LEVIT will be released on 11 September on Sony
Classical. A very personal double album marked by a desire for encounter and
togetherness. The program includes rarely played arrangements of Bach and Brahms
by Ferruccio Busoni and Max Reger, as well as Palais de Mari – Morton
Feldman’s final work for piano.

Igor Levit’s double album “Encounter” seeks sounds that give
inner strength and support for the soul. In works by Bach to Max Reger, based on
poignant vocal compositions, the desire for encounters and human togetherness is
given expression – at a time when isolation is the order of the day. The
result is a very personal recital.

The 33-year-old once again steps beyond the limits of pure piano repertoire: in
the Busoni transcriptions of Bach’s chorale preludes and the late Brahms,
which are rarely heard as complete cycles, Levit assumes the role of an organist
who fills vast church spaces. In Johannes Brahms’s Vier ernste
Gesänge, he lends instrumental eloquence to overcoming the torments of
fearing death. On the other hand, the gentle shimmer produced from its very few
notes makes Morton Feldman's extremely quiet work for piano, Palais de Mari
(1986), the epitome of a sensuous, transcendental realm of possibilities.

The repertoire presented by Levit here reflects the album’s title. The
works create a community of experience for many individuals forced to maintain
distance from one another. They establish contact with religious and inward
spirituality. In addition, the inner connections between the composers and their
respective aesthetics make “Encounter” a journey offering
astonishing discoveries, even on ostensibly familiar terrain.

“The restricted isolation in the weeks since mid-March 2020 was often
difficult for me too. As an artist, however, I have never felt so free, so open
in my life as on those days when I often only decided half an hour before the
live stream what I would play in my house concerts,” reports Igor Levit.
The complete absence of routine concert activity also had its positive sides:
“Being able to make music without any compulsion and spontaneously
choosing works in which all questions about love and death, loneliness and the
possibility of real love for others are examined, has given my piano playing a
level of freedom that I had never before experienced in this form.”

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