Blackbird & Ancestors
Aldilá, 2025
10/10
Listen to Blackbird & Ancestors
The Brooklyn pianist Beth Levin embraces the traditions of the Polish school and Walter Gieseking (via Marian Filar), Rudolf Serkin and Artur Schnabel (via Leonard Shure) in her craft, where these 3 cycles from legendary composers are captured live.
Mozart’s “Piano Sonata In A Minor K 310” starts the listen with the dancing keys radiating tremendous skill and melody, where the detailed progressions are nothing short of stunning.
The middle belongs to the tense bouts of “5 Stucke Fur Klavier Op. 21A”, which can rumble with intrigue just as it can retreat to bare moments of grace and reflection in the Tiessen piece, while Schubert’s “Piano Sonata In G Major D 894 Op. 78” exits with firm and pretty gestures amid the poetic and touching vision that’s timeless and touching.
An absolutely stunning display of classical music, Levin’s debut was at the age of 12, and her immense talent and experience in the area of solo piano is as luminous as ever here.
Travels well with: Jennifer Bellor- Long These Days; Michal Mizrahi- Dreamspace