For his debut on Warner Classics, the 17-year-old pianist Yoav Levanon has chosen a demanding program of works by Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Liszt’s mighty Sonata in B minor forms the centerpiece of A Monument for Beethoven, an album honoring the four composers’ contribution to fundraising for a monument to Beethoven in 1845 in the city of Bonn, Beethoven’s birthplace. When Levanon performed the program in Paris in 2020, Le Monde declared him “already a great pianist.” He describes the album as “a “musical journey that traverses many distinct planes” and which is “emblematic of the great fellowship and solidarity that exists among musicians.”
Yoav Levanon: A Monument for Beethoven
