| WEST COAST BRAHMS
12th May 2008
Following the conclusion of his major recital tour which ended in Seattle on 29th April, Leif Ove Andsnes stayed on in the States for high profile concerts of Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2 with both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Philharmonics. Following are review highlights...
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| PIANIST LEIF OVE ANDSNES IN A RECITAL OF SENSUOUS BEAUTY, FLUID TECHNIQUE
29th April 2008
The Seattle Times reviews US recital tour
Norway's most famous musical figure since Edvard Grieg returned to Meany Theater on Monday evening, an occasion for rejoicing among keyboard fans. When Leif Ove Andsnes is in town, music lovers know to expect a performance that's both thoughtful...
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| ANDSNES BRINGS ALIVE TONE POEMS ON THE PIANO
29th April 2008
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reviews US recital tour
It was a good thing Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes chose to describe his Sibelius choices immediately before playing them. As usual, and more irritating than usual, the lights at Meany Hall were turned down during Andsnes'...
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| MUSCLE HAS ITS MOMENT, EVEN WHEN RESTRAINT RULES
26th April 2008
The New York Times reviews US recital tour
Leif Ove Andsnes has been known to produce a lavish, Romantic sound, and in fleeting moments during his recital at Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, he edged in that direction. But Mr. Andsnes is at his best in music that lends itself...
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| THE CULTURAL TOURIST
25th April 2008
The New York Daily News reviews US recital tour
Few pianists give the impression of being as rigorously self-contained as Leif Ove Andsnes, the Norwegian pianist who performed an imposing and exhilarating program at Carnegie Hall Thursday night.
Although dressed by Issey Miyake...
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| SFIST INTERVIEWS LEIF-OVE ANDSNES
24th April 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes should just stop traveling and move here. Looking back only a few years, we see a 2004 performance here with Ian Bostridge, a 2005 concert of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto with MTT/SFS, a solo recital in 2006. He'll be here on Sunday for a recital at Davies and...
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| PIANIST ANDSNES, BETTER THAN THE HYPE
24th April 2008
The Washington Post reviews US recital tour
So much praise has been heaped on the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes that a music lover comes to a performance freighted with expectations. The 38-year-old Norwegian has been called brilliant, exceptional, vibrant, poetic. He is something of...
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| PIANIST OF MAGISTERIAL ELEGANCE, POWER AND INSIGHT
18th April 2008
New York Times preview in advance of US recital tour
There are some performers whose personalities or eccentricities become inseparable from their music making. Then there are musicians who reveal themselves only through music. The brilliant, unassuming Norwegian pianist Leif Ove...
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| A PIANIST'S PILGRIMAGE
17th April 2008
Wall Street Journal feature in advance of US recital tour
To the greater concert-going public, Scandinavian music is primarily represented by three towering figures: Finland's Jean Sibelius, Denmark's Carl Nielsen and Norway's Edvard Grieg. (Though Sweden has produced such major...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES OVERTUIGT IN UITEENLOPEND REPERTOIRE
17th April 2008
Review of Brussel recital in De Standaard
BRUSSEL - De Noorse pianist Leif Ove Andsnes verzoende in Brussel minder bekend werk met het ijzeren repertoire.
Misschien hebt u ooit beelden gezien van Leif Ove Andsnes die Griegs Ballade in sol klein speelde op de top van een fjord....
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| RECITAL REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM GRAZ AND VIENNA
14th April 2008
Zum Barock, in dem es sein Instrument, den modernen Konzertflügel, noch nicht gab, hegt Leif Ove Andsnes offenbar eine enge Affinität. Mit Johann Sebastian Bachs Toccata in e-Moll, eröffnete der nowegische Spitzenpianist im Stephaniensaal seinen ersten Grazer Solabend, den er im...
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| NORWEGIAN PIANIST TO BRING SCANDINAVIAN FLAVOR TO BIRMINGHAM
13th April 2008
There are few great cities or concert halls Leif Ove Andsnes hasn't played. The 38-year-old pianist triumphs nearly time he sets fingers to keyboard, whether soloing with orchestras or playing recitals, or if he's in Paris, Sydney or Los Angeles.
He has particularly fond memories...
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| LOOKING FORWARD TO A " PLAYFUL" SUMMER IN RISØR
8th April 2008
The Risør Chamber Music Festival has just announced its 2008 programme and tickets can now be booked via the festival website http://www.kammermusikkfest.no.
This year's festival has the title "Playful!" with an emphasis on the mechanics, curiosity and literally playfullness...
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| SIX-CITY U.S. RECITAL TOUR IN APRIL
4th April 2008
CELEBRATED NORWEGIAN PIANIST LEIF OVE ANDSNES RETURNS TO U.S. THIS MONTH FOR SOLO RECITAL TOUR; PROGRAM IN SIX CITIES APRIL 19-28, INCLUDING RECITAL AT NEW YORK’S CARNEGIE HALL, FEATURES GRIEG’S POWERFUL BALLADE AS WELL AS SELECTIONS FROM DEBUSSY’S TWO BOOKS OF PRELUDES
ON APRIL...
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| THE ITALIAN JOB
2nd April 2008
Leif Ove's recital tour continues in Italy this week. Having played in Milan last night he moves on to Rome and Florence. Following his experience last time he gave a recital in Rome two years ago, Leif Ove hopes that there is no powercut at tomorrow's recital and that he might...
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| REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM COPENHAGEN RECITAL 26th MARCH
29th March 2008
'Han er virkelig en af vor tids reneste, men samtidig udtrykssikreste klaverkunstnere'.
-Thomas Michelsen, Politiken, 28. marts 2008.
'Glasklar stemmeføring og i store, svungne linier. Flot, men ikke pralende, og med en fuldkommen suveræn fremstilling'.
* * * * * -Jens Cornelius,...
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| TOWERING IVORY
20th March 2008
In the April issue of Men's Vogue (US edition) Damian Fowler
interviews Leif Ove Andnses in advance of his US recital tour:
"Whether he's atop a mountain or in a concert hall, Andsnes is one of
the greatest pianists of his generation. The dashing musician
delights audiences...
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| "IDEAL MOZART" IS RECORD GEIJUTSU'S CD OF THE MONTH
18th March 2008
Japan's Record Geijutsu magazine has chosen Leif Ove Andsnes' latest recording of Mozart piano concertos as April's "Critics Choice of the Month", praising the interpretation of piano concerto No. 17 as "ideal Mozart ... angelic and human" and No 20 as "an insightful approach...
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| THRILLER IN THE MIST
16th March 2008
The Sunday Telegraph reviews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
As the latest instalment of the Southbank Centre's International Piano Series, the recital by Leif Ove Andsnes ranged wide, covering more than 200 years of keyboard repertoire. Opening with Bach's Toccata in...
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| RUDOLFINUM REVUE INTERVIEW
15th March 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes (1970) has a colourful biography. A native of the small island of Karmoy on the Norwegian west coast, he has a very special link with our country. At the age of 15 he began studying at the Bergen Conservatoire with Czech professor Jiří Hlinka. The latter...
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| FIRST AUSTRIAN REVIEWS FOR MOZART PIANO CONCERTOS
14th March 2008
Pianist Andsnes brilliert bei Mozarts herrlichen Klavierkonzerten Nr. 17 und Nr.20 nicht allein aufgrund siener Technik, sondern auch dank seiner stupenden Musikalität und Feinfühligkeit. Sicher begleitet von Norwegischen Kammerorchester.
Peter Jarolin, Kurier, March 2008
Der...
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| JANACEK IN PRAGUE
14th March 2008
Last night Leif Ove Andsnes performed in Prague at the famous Rudolfinum concert hall to a packed house for the sixth concert in his major recital tour. In the run up to the recital the leading newspapers ran interviews with Leif Ove who also appeared on the national news (www.ct24.cz/vysilani/1097206490-udalosti-v-kulture...
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| FINELY JUDGED SHADES OF TONE AND DYMANICS
13th March 2008
The Independent reviews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
It's a brave pianist who makes Grieg the climax of a sequence taking in Bach and Beethoven. Leif Ove Andsnes upped the stakes further by championing Grieg's Ballade in G minor, which features in his current recordings...
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| PERFORMANCE ON 3
13th March 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes' London recital was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and will be broadcast on "Performance on 3" on 2nd April at 7pm.
Commenting on the recital, producer Kevin Bee said: "A fabulous recital! - real clarity and poise in the Bach and Beethoven, scrupulous attention to detail...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES: A MAGICAL MYSTERY
12th March 2008
The Telegraph reviews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
A central component of this masterly piano recital was Grieg's Ballade in G minor, a rarely performed piece but one that Leif Ove Andsnes has identified as being of seminal significance in Grieg's output.
If we associate...
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| CLARITY AND COMMAND
12th March 2008
The Guardian reviews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
Two of last year's more significant musical anniversaries - 50 years since the death of Sibelius, and 150 since the birth of Grieg - had little relevance to pianists. But music by those two composers formed the centrepiece...
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| ANDSNES MARRIES HEAD AND HEART
12th March 2008
Classicalsource.com reviews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
Seldom does any one piano recital range quite so far and wide, and even less frequently does one hear a single performer do such full and equal justice to all the composers represented – and Leif Ove Andsnes also...
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| NEW CLASSICAL TRACKS: FROM NORWAY, ELOQUENT MOZART
11th March 2008
Minnesota Public Radio reviews Mozart
On his new disc, pianist Leif Ove Andnes plays -- and conducts -- Mozart with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. It's a combination that brings out spontaneous, subtle playing from soloist and orchestra alike.
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes...
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| ALLES IST ERLEUCHTET
10th March 2008
Der Hamburger Abendblatt reviews recital at the Laeiszhalle Musikhalle Hamburg
Manche Pianisten benehmen sich wie Motten in der Nähe einer grellen Lichtquelle, um jeden Preis wollen sie leuchten und weithin sichtbar sein. Man soll in jedem Moment, bei jeder muskulösen Geste sehen,...
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| DER SENSIBLE PIANOHELD AUS DEM KÜHLEN NORDEN
10th March 2008
Die Welt reviews recital at the Laeiszhalle Musikhalle Hamburg
Es war uns, als schwebe ein hauchzarter Gazeschleier über den Klängen von Debussy, Grieg und Janácek, ja selbst von Bach. Leif Ove Andsnes schenkte der "Toccata e-moll" des jungen Bach bei seinem Pro Arte-Recital am...
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| DEEP GRIEG PLAYED WITH FJORD FOCUS
10th March 2008
The Independent previews recital at London's Royal Festival Hall
Leif Ove Andsnes always brings a whiff of the fjords when he takes the stage. As the pianistic voice of Norway, he sees it as his duty to reflect the airy spirit of his small but intensely musical nation, and the...
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| HITTING THE HIGHEST NOTES
10th March 2008
Metro previews recital at London's Royal Festivall Hall
The great Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes once airlifted a grand piano to the sparkling, snow –capped cliff next to a fjord. He proceeded to play a terrifically difficult piece by Grieg, while cameraman in a helicopter...
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| LE PIANISTE QUI VENAIT DU FROID
6th March 2008
Figaro Madame previews recital in Paris
Cést un poète, un rêveur né au pays des fjords en 1970 ... Le pianiste Leif Ove Andsnes séduit les mélomanes: qu'il soit seul, en concerto ou entouré des meilleurs chambristes, son jeu garde le poudré neigeux de ses origines et la virtuosité...
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| A LA FICHE
6th March 2008
L'Express reviews Schubert box set
Qui? Valeur sure ou star en devenir, on ne sait pas encore vraiment. Le jeune pianiste norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes possède toutes les qualités d'un grand. Une technique sans faille, bien sur, comme de nombreux musiciens de sa génération. Mais aussi...
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| PLAYING AWAY FROM HOME
5th March 2008
Time Out previews recital at the London's Royal Festival Hall
When touring, concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes practises in piano shops. He also spent a year on a quest to discover where composer Edvard Grieg found his inspiration.
Jonathan Lennie joins him as he starts the day.
I’m...
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| GRIEGS KLANGWELT
4th March 2008
The Berliner Morgenpost previews recital at the Berlin Philharmonie
Ein Botschafter der norwegischen Musik möchte er nicht sein. Das klingt ihm zu eingleisig und großspurig. Trotzdem kann Leif Ove Andsnes nicht leugnen, dass er eine besondere Beziehung zur Musik von Edvard Grieg...
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| RECITAL TOUR DEBUT IN AARHUS, DENMARK
3rd March 2008
Den norske verdenspianist Leif Ove Andsnes begyndte i Århus en turné, som bringer ham rundt i Europa og USA. På programmet stod musik med fantasien og det billedskabende i centrum.
Leif Ove Andsnes udstråler både menneskeligt og musikalsk overskud. Venligt afslappet slentrer...
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| THE OBSERVER REVIEWS MOZART
2nd March 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes will surely come under pressure to finish a complete cycle after these readings of Mozart's piano concertos Nos 17 and 20, K453 and 466. Conducting from the keyboard, Andsnes never imposes his personality on the music; quite the reverse, as the self-effacing Norwegian...
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| DIAPASON REVIEWS MOZART
1st March 2008
Il y a d’abord le toucher magique d’Andnses, ce jeu perlé, aussi efficace dans le legato que dans le détaché, qui fait merveille quand le ton est à la confidence comme dans l’Andante du KV 453, et qui s’accommpagne d’une animation naturelle et vivante du discours; ainsi dans le...
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| KLANGWUNDER AUF DEM KLAVIER
26th February 2008
Hamburger Abendblatt previews recital at the Laeiszhalle Musikhalle Hamburg
Der gefeierte norwegische Pianist kommt wieder nach Hamburg. Auf dem Programm eine Rarität: die g-Moll-Ballade von Grieg.
Seit Leif Ove Andsnes in den frühen 90er-Jahren die internationale Musikszene...
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| IN THE NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO STUDIO, BOSTON
22nd February 2008
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has a smiling, generous air about him—even when he's been pulled into a radio studio, after dark, to get bounced back and forth between a Steinway and an inquisitive host.
While I always feel like I may be torturing our performers just a bit by asking...
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| HOW I FOUND GRIEG UP A MOUNTAIN
21st February 2008
DAILY TELEGRAPH FEATURE
When was the last time you saw someone playing a grand piano thousands of feet up a mountain? A cynic might dismiss it as some sort of gimmick, but this is Leif Ove Andsnes we are talking about, one of today's most compelling, deep-thinking musicians and...
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| LEIF ON THE ROAD, Classic FM Magazine feature
1st February 2008
Away from the expensively carpeted and tastefully decorated foyer of Paris' historic Salle Pleyel concert hall, up a narrow flight of stairs unseen by audiences, is a small room. It is simply furnished with a wardrobe, a small washbasin and a couple of chairs. The mostly bare walls...
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| PEER GYNT PRIZE FOR LEIF OVE ANDSNES
9th July 2007
Leif Ove Andsnes was announced as this year's candidate for the prestigious Peer Gynt Prize. The prize was initiated to honour personalities from Norway for their achievements in politics, sports and culture. Each year the members of parliament choose one candidate who is known for...
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| "LONGING" FOR RISØR
3rd July 2007
Another Risør Festival has just come to a close and it seems that each year the festival becomes more special for new-comers and old-timers alike. A new addition to this year's festival was a Saturday night outdoors concert on the island of Stangholmen. A 10 minute boat ride from...
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| BALLAD FOR EDVARD GRIEG - LEIF OVE ANDSNES COMMEMORATES THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF GRIEG’S DEATH
7th June 2007
"This year I have made a new Grieg “discovery“. That is not to say that I have found a new work hidden in a trunk up a fjord in Norway. It is simply that I have come to terms with Grieg’s Ballade in G minor – the composer’s largest scale work for solo piano, an iconic piece in Norway...
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| "A REAL PHENOMEN AND AN HISTORICAL OCCASION." JAPANESE PRESS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEIF OVE ANDSNES
29th May 2007
Leif Ove Andsnes made his debut in Japan 14 years ago, has returned for ten tours since and by now is unmistakably one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. When he performed in a recital at Tokyo Opera City last February, all of the five daily newspapers had come to review the concert,...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES PLAYS DALBAVIE AND LUTOSLAWSKI IN MUNICH
22nd May 2007
For their two concerts in Munich’s Herculessaal last week, Leif Ove Andsnes and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst chose to perform two piano concertos, one by Witold Lutoslawski and the other by Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Dalbavie’s work, which was written for...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS & DISCOGRAPHY
21st May 2007
AWARDS/ ACHIEVEMENTS
2007
For 'Horizons': Classical Brit Award – Instrumentalist of the Year 2007
Peer Gynt Prize
Nominated for a Grammy Award – Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) for 'Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2'
Nominated for a Norwegian Grammy...
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| CLASSICAL BRIT AWARD WIN!
4th May 2007
Leif Ove Andsnes was presented with the Classical Brits 2007 award for "Instrumentalist of the Year" for his album "Horizons". This is the second year that Leif Ove has taken home this award.
Congratulations Leif Ove!...
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| 2007 RISØR FESTIVAL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
19th April 2007
The programme for the annual Risør Festival of chamber music - which this year takes place from 26 June to 1 July - has just been announced and with it a brand new website which contains information in both Norwegian and English.
Longing is the theme in Risør this summer and,...
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| MORE SCHUBERT FROM LEIF OVE ANDSNES!
18th April 2007
MORE SCHUBERT FROM PIANIST LEIF OVE ANDSNES AND TENOR IAN BOSTRIDGE AS THEY COMPLETE INNOVATIVE “SONATAS AND SONGS” SERIES FOR EMI CLASSICS
NEW RECORDING FEATURES SONATA IN C MINOR, D. 958, WITH SELECT SONGS AND FASCINATING FRAGMENTS
EMI Classics has just released the final...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES IS NOMINTATED FOR A 2007 CLASSICAL BRIT AWARD
3rd April 2007
Following his success at the Classical Brits last year Leif Ove Andsnes has again been nominated for the "Instrumentalist of the Year" award for his EMI Classics album "Horizons" – to view the album minisite go to www.andsneshorizons.com
The award ceremony will take place on Thursday...
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| “ROMANTIC INTOXICATION” - ANDSNES RETURNS FROM EUROPEAN TOUR
27th March 2007
“The audience was captured in an instant“ wrote the Westdeutsche Zeitung about Leif Ove Andsnes' first concert on his European tour with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano in Düsseldorf. Andsnes performed Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, which he recorded...
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| GRIEG ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
5th March 2007
On the occasion of the 100th. anniversary of Edvard Grieg's death, Leif Ove Andsnes will host a major documentary exploring the life and times of Norway’s most prominent composer. The film will be broadcast on 4th September through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. The programme...
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| JAPANESE SUCCESS FOR LEIF OVE
19th February 2007
Leif Ove Andsnes recently completed his 10th tour of Japan in a triumph of praise from the national press and went on to Seoul to perform a recital programme which was equally well received.
Asahi Newspaper wrote of his Tokyo Recital "Maturity and individuality. Andsnes' interpretation...
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| HORIZONS NOMINATED FOR A NORWEGIAN GRAMMY "SPELLMANN"
3rd January 2007
Leif Ove Andsnes’ EMI Classics recording Horizons has been nominated for a Norwegian Grammy “Spellemann” in the category of Best Classical Album. The Norwegian Grammy award ceremony takes place in Oslo on Jan 27th....
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| 2006 A SUCCESS STORY IN THE USA FOR ANDSNES
18th December 2006
As 2006 draws to a close, two of Leif Ove Andsnes’s recent EMI Classics recordings achieved special distinction in the United States.
First, on December 7, his recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos 1 and 2 with Antonio Pappano and the Berlin Philharmonic was nominated for...
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| "BEYOND THE SURFACE" LEIF OVE ANDSNES PLAYS MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 17
11th December 2006
"Beyond the Surfaces" (Plain Dealer)
Leif Ove Andsnes plays Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17
Whether it went beyond or below the surfaces, critics agreed that Leif Ove Andsnes' performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major K 453 has reached new levels. Andsnes performed...
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| RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTOS 1 & 2 NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY
11th December 2006
Leif Ove Andsnes' EMI Classics recording of Rachmaninov's First and
Second Piano Concertos has been nominated for a Grammy in the "Best
Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra" category. The recording, which
has attracted huge attention worldwide, was included in the New York...
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| THREE SEASON OPENERS IN AMERICA AND FIRST UK REVIEWS FOR HORIZONS
9th October 2006
Leif Ove Andsnes arrived in America on September 18 to prepare for season-opening concerts with three important American musical institutions. Playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with the St. Louis Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra in their hometowns, and at Carnegie Hall’s...
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| FESTIVAL SUMMER 2006
18th September 2006
With two concerts at the Musiktage Mondsee on 30 and 31 August, Leif Ove Andsnes’ summer festival season ended just like it started in July: with excellent music in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Mondsee, Lofoten, Verbier and Stavanger – all these stops on Leif Ove...
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| DALBAVIE IN JAPAN
4th September 2006
This month Leif Ove Andsnes made a quick trip to Tokyo to give the Japanese premiere of French composer Marc-Andre Dalbavie's piano concerto, a work written for and dedicated to Andsnes. The Suntory Hall concert on 25 August was part of a special festival dedicated to Dalbavie's...
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| MEET LEIF OVE IN NEW YORK ON SEPT. 26!
24th August 2006
When: Tuesday, September 26 at 6.30pm
Where: The Samsung Experience, Third Floor, Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle, New York
Please join Leif Ove as he celebrates the release of his new CD, Horizons. After performing selections from his new album, Leif Ove will sign CDs...
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| RISØR
7th July 2006
"Do we have to go home? This is the best festival in the world!" This
was the question asked by this year's guest composer, Mark-Anthony
Turnage, at the final concert of the Risør Festival. The little
baroque church, which was packed from top to bottom, instantly
erupted...
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| ANDSNES DEBUTS WITH THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
25th January 2006
On 22 January Leif Ove Andsnes gave his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the prized annual Mozart Week in Salzburg playing concertos by Haydn and Mozart. This concert was not only prestigious because of Leif Ove's debut with the Vienna Philharmonic,...
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| READ WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT LEIF OVE ANDSNES'S RACHMANINOV...
10th November 2005
“Leif Ove Andsnes applies to these two glorious works all those qualities for which his playing is renowed. In terms of sound, there’s a firmness and depth of toutch that gives rise to a warm, singing quality. It never leaves him, even when he’s under maximum pressure. And the drama,...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES UNDERTAKES UNPRECEDENTED TEN-CONCERT RESIDENCY WITH LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA IN NOVEMBER, EXTENDING INTO SPRING 2006
8th November 2005
REPERTOIRE RANGES FROM PIANO CONCERTOS BY MOZART AND GRIEG TO PIANO PIECES BY MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE AND GYÖRGY KURTÁG, AS WELL AS CHAMBER MUSIC BY MOZART – AND A PIANO MASTER CLASS
NEXT SPRING ANDSNES RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES FOR JOINT RECITAL WITH TENOR IAN BOSTRIDGE IN A PROGRAM...
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| NEW MINISITE LAUNCHED FOR LEIF OVE ANDSNES'S RECENT RACHMANINOV RECORDING
24th October 2005
New minisite launched for Leif Ove Andsnes's recordings of Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos 1 & 2.
Visit http://www.andsnesrachmaninov.com to watch a video interview with Leif Ove Andsnes and conductor Antonio Pappano, view photographs from the recording sessions in Berlin and listen...
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| EARLY LAUNCH OF RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTOS IN JAPAN IS AN INSTANT SUCCESS
23rd September 2005
With one more concert to go in Tokyo, Leif Ove has had an incredible success in Japan so far this month.
Performing with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikhail Pletnev, he has given two concerts of RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 and one...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES AND ANTONIO PAPPANO TAKE ON RACHMANINOV’S FIRST TWO PIANO CONCERTOS WITH THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
11th August 2005
International release: October 2005
4 74813 2 (CD) / 4 74813 5 (digital)
Exclusive EMI artists Antonio Pappano and Leif Ove Andsnes are no strangers to tackling the greatest works in the classical repertoire, each with his own approach. Pappano has quickly become regarded as...
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| WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF DALBAVIE PIANO CONCERTO AT THE 2005 PROMS
1st August 2005
On August 16 Leif Ove Andsnes will give the world premiere performance of Marc-André Dalbavie's Piano Concerto at the London Proms together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The work was co-commissioned by the BBC Proms, Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago...
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