Sony Classical has announced a new release from pianist Igor Levit – Brahms’s two Piano Concertos, recorded with conductor Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, along with the composer’s late solo works, Opp 116-119. The triple album will also include a performance of Brahms’s Waltz Op 39 No 15 for four hands, played by Levit and Thielemann. 

The pair first performed together in 2015, when Levit stepped in for an ill colleague to perform Mozart’s C major Concerto K 467 (with the Staatskapelle Dresden, in Munich), and immediately struck up a rapport. ‘We have such a similar way of thinking that it is not necessary to discuss many things,’ Thielemann said, with Levit adding: ‘When the piece begins, I simply have complete confidence in you. I know I can’t take a wrong turn. Having such unconditional trust is extraordinary.’

Sony Classical will release the album on October 4, though the Andante from the Piano Concerto No 2 is available now, and you can listen to it below.

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