Last modified on Sun 13 Dec 2020 05.07 EST Every recording from Igor Levit, the Russian-born, Berlin-based pianist, is an event (in fact this âeventâ was launched in September but thanks to Covid delays only reached me late November). Heâs as skilled at dreaming up album ideas, always driven by musical purpose, as he is at tackling the major works of the repertoire, recently the complete Beethoven sonatas. Levitâs latest release, recorded in lockdown in May 2020, is Encounter (Sony), a double album of Chorale Preludes by Bach and Brahms in the versions by Busoni, together with shorter works by Brahms (arr. Reger) and Reger (arr. Julian Becker) â you get the idea â and a work by one composer pure and simple: