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FOR PIANIST IGOR LEVIT, music always opens out onto a social context. In 2020, when the pandemic temporarily shut down concert life, he put on a series of hauskonzertes livestreamed from his flat. These were models of what a classical concert could be: intimate, accessible, with an ear to the music of leftist composers such as Cardew, Dessau, and Rzewski alongside canonical repertoire. Levit’s latest release likewise reclaims a strain of dissidence within and against the tradition, pairing pi...

This year’s Documenta has become a political hot potato, being widely criticized as antisemitic. But the event, which is one of the world’s most prestigious art shows, has also been a success with a lot of younger visitors.

A recent work by Andrew McIntosh, the latest undertaking by Igor Levit and a high-profile tribute to Mieczyslaw Weinberg are among the highlights.

Dazzling range in mastery of tone and technique. Classical music review by Rachel Halliburton

The best new releases, from violinist Plamena Nikitassova's thrilling Biber sonatas to an ambitious double-album from pianist Igor Levit

Levit ranges from Wagner to Henze with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, while Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich celebrate their artist-in-residence

German pianist and conductor who brought exceptional sensitivity and lyricism to his performances

From the blog of Gershon Hepner at The Times of Israel

There’s a celebratory quality to the classical music offerings this fall, in no small part out of gratitude that live performances can go on at all. The home team has seldom looked so good, and many of the visitors, too, are easy on the eye and ear.

There’s a celebratory quality to the classical music offerings this fall, in no small part out of gratitude that live performances can go on at all. The home team has seldom looked so good, and many of the visitors, too, are easy on the eye and ear.