Igor Levit talks about his new album “On DSCH,” which will be released on Sony Classical on September 10, 2021.
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“On DSCH” is a 3-album discographic tour de force by “one of the essential artists of our time” (The New York Times). That the self-styled “maximalist” enjoys pushing himself to his limits — intellectually and physically —is well known, but the present project — two key cycles of musical modernism — puts all others in the shade.
Completed in 1951, Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues — a summary of all the major and minor tonalities — lasts some two and a half hours in total, while Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH, which he completed in 1963, is an unbroken set of variations lasting nearly an hour and a half. The letters DSCH spell out Shostakovich’s musical monogram using their German note names: D–Es–C–H = D–E♭–C–B.
The album’s artwork is specially created by the internationally renowned artist and graphic designer Christoph Niemann, who regularly illustrates for The New Yorker and The New York Times.
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