Igor Levit

Pianist Igor Levit makes his Symphony Hall recital debut with an all-Beethoven program. It's a fitting stage, beneath the plaque that bears the composer's name, for a pianist whose sound has been compared, in its power and expressive range, to a full orchestra. For the bicentennial of Beethoven's death, Levit reveals an icon's humanity—his early-career swagger and hunger, his despair at losing his hearing, a moment of joy—before arriving at the "Waldstein" sonata, a luminous statement of faith in the power of art.