LIVESTREAM: LvB250 – IGOR LEVIT

The concert with Igor Levit is moved from the Main Hall to the Grünewald Hall due to current audience restrictions.

Tickets for the original concert in the Main Hall will be redeemed. Ticket holders receive information by e-mail with information on how this is done.

Information about tickets and refunds

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Igor Levit is one of his generation’s most important pianists (he was born in 1987) and he regularly appears on all of the major concert stages worldwide. He has performed at Konserthuset Stockholm on several occasions, each time with Beethoven on the programme. When he returns for the major Beethoven anniversary, he will do so emphatically – in eight concerts, he will perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.

Beethoven had the unusual ability to charge short themes with meaning and abundant energy. The best-known example is probably his Symphony No. 5, but this is also true of many of his piano sonatas, such as the second, whose introductory theme twists and turns, proving to have endless expressive potential. At the same time, we get to encounter Beethoven as both amiable and companionable, without being pompous.

Like the second sonata, Sonata No. 7 is large-scale, with a run-time of nearly 25 minutes. A significant portion is taken up by the melancholy second movement, with the designation largo e mesto, which means slow and sorrowful. Many have speculated that the music is actually about an unhappy love affair, or sadness following the loss of his mother a short time earlier.

Beethoven often used F major to signal lightness, or sometimes a pastoral sensibility, as in Sonata No. 6, where we also hear both light-hearted spirituality and humour.

Sonata No. 18 in Ess-major is sometimes called The Hunt due to its urgent, fiery final movement. Beethoven continued to live a calm life in Wienerwald, but he pulled out all the stops in the music and tried new approaches. In this original sonata, for example, he has completely scrapped the traditional slow movement. Instead, he has inserted both a scherzo and a minuet.

Ticket information

The concert/livestream will take place with an audience of maximum 50 people in the hall. The costumized seating plan allows for single seats or two seats together using the online booking. If more seats together are needed, please call our box office, +46 8 50 66 77 88.

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