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Yoav Levanon, piano

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Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 19:30
Yoav Levanon is an extremely young specialist in the entire virtuoso piano repertoire: in the 2023/24 season, he debuted at the Elbphilharmonie with no lesser work than the monumental Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. The 20-year-old Israeli now builds on this great success with a technically challenging programme, at whose heart is again a magnum opus by Liszt. The »Études d’exécution transcendante« can logically be translated as »cross-border studies« and thereby Franz Liszt chose an eminently suitable name... Read full text

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Yoav LevanonPiano

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Prelude in E minor, BWV 855 / transcription by Alexander Iljitsch SilotiJohann Sebastian Bach
Chaconne / from: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004Johann Sebastian Bach / Ferruccio Busoni
Études, Op. 25Frédéric Chopin
Études d’exécution transcendante, S.139Franz Liszt
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