Levit, Igor | Encounter | 2CD

Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist, born on 10 March 1987 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), USSR. He lives in Berlin.

Encounter is a 2 CD album of solo piano music performed by Igor Levit, released on Sony Classical in 2020. It presents Ferruccio Busoni's transcriptions of Bach organ chorale preludes, Johannes Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge in an arrangement by Max Reger, Reger's Nachtlied arranged by Julian Becker, and Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari, the composer's final work for solo piano. The recording was made in Berlin at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in May 2020, with Jack Ryan Smith as executive producer and Andreas Neubronner as producer.