CARNEGIE
HALL
Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 8 PM
Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage
Igor Levit, Piano
LUDWIG
VAN BEETHOVEN
(1770-1827)
Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by
Diabelli, Op. 120 (1819 and 1823)
Theme: Vivace
Variation 1: Alla marcia maestoso
Variation 2: Poco allegro
Variation 3: L'istesso tempo
Variation 4: Un poco più vivace
Variation 5: Allegro vivace
Variation 6: Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
Variation 7: Un poco più allegro
Variation 8: Poco vivace
Variation 9: Allegro pesante e risoluto
Variation 10: Presto
Variation 11: Allegretto
Variation 12: Un poco più moto
Variation 13: Vivace
Variation 14: Grave e maestoso
Variation 15: Presto scherzando
Variation 16: Allegro
Variation 17: L'istesso tempo
Variation 18: Poco moderato
Variation 19: Presto
Variation 20: Andante
Variation 21: Allegro con brio
Variation 22: Allegro molto alla "Notte e giorno
faticar" di Mozart
Variation 23: Allegro assai
Variation 24: Fughetta
Variation 25: Allegro
Variation 26: Allegretto
Variation 27: Vivace
Variation 28: Allegro
Variation 29: Adagio ma non troppo
Variation 30: Andante, sempre cantabile
Variation 31: Largo, molto espressivo
Variation 32: Fuga
Variation 33: Tempo di Minuetto moderato
INTERMISSION
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
(1938-2021)
The People United Will Never Be Defeated (1975)
Variation i detein: aticate but firm
Variation 2: With firmness
Variation 3: Slightly slower, with expressive nuances
Variation 4: Marcato
Variation 5: Dreamlike, frozen
Variation 6: Same tempo as beginning
Variation 7: Lightly, impatiently
Variation 8: With agility; not too much pedal; crisp
Variation 9: Evenly
Variation 10: Comodo, recklessly
Variation 11: Tempo I, like fragments of an absent
melody—in strict time
Variation 12
Variation 13
Variation 14: A bit faster, optimistically
Variation 15: Flexible, like an improvisation
Variation 16: Same tempo as preceding, with
fluctuations; much pedal / Expansive, with a
victorious feeling
Variation 17: L.H. strictly; R.H. freely,
roughly in space
Variation 18
Variation 19: With energy
Variation 20: Crisp, precise
Variation 21: Relentless, uncompromising
Variation 22: Very expressionate
Variation 23: As fast as possible, with some rubato
Variation 24
Variation 25
Variation 26: In a militant manner
Variation 27: Tenderly, with a hopeful expression;
cadenza
Variation 28
Variation 29
Variation 30
Variation 31
Variation 32
Variation 33
Variation 34
Variation 35
Variation 36
Cadenza
Thema: Tempo I
Tonight is a whole lot of variations with Igor Levit
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