2023-05-12 15:00:00
During his evening at the Musikverein, Igor Levit played out all his possibilities magnificently.
“To long for me while dying, not to die of longing!” Tristan sings in feverish anticipation of his Isolde. Igor Levit began the second part of his piano recital with Wagner’s outrageous Tristan chord. Brittle, timid, but almost bursting with inner tension, Levit “longed” for the prelude to the Wagner opera. In a concentrated piano version by Zoltán Kocsis that reveals the nervous system.
After her rushing outburst, Kocsis gave her a concert ending that enabled Levit to seamlessly transition into Franz Liszt’s B minor sonata. One pioneer followed the next. Because Liszt also created something unheard of here, from a few motives he invented a formally revolutionary sonata that no serious pianist can avoid. All the less Igor Levit, who sneaked out of the “Tristan” into the gloomy beginning of the sonata monster before the main theme broke out all the more impressively in the Allegro energico.
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