Igor Levit: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Igor Levit play at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: Nov. 22, 2019 | Tom Huizenga -- When Russian-born pianist Igor Levit dropped in to play Beethoven at the Tiny Desk, he admitted he was – even after four cups of coffee – “still in my time zone change.“ A little jet-lagged, he had flown in from Berlin the night before and hopped an early train from New York to Washington, D.C. But Levit easily slipped into his Beethoven zone – a space he knows all too well. Levit, 32, has been playing the German composer’s music for half his life. He recently released a box set of all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas and once again he’ll be performing complete cycles of the sonatas in various cities to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020. Levit’s set placed the oddball, wryly-humored Andante from the neglected Tenth Sonata between two of the most famous pieces of wes