| FROM TØNSBERG TO TOKYO AND BEYOND
9th March 2010
Today Leif Ove Andsnes and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra join forces for the start of a tour which takes them from Norway across the world to Japan and Korea. Regular collaborators and friends, Leif Ove last visited Asia with the ensemble exactly five years ago and were warmly...
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| BUILDING UP TO THE RACHMANINOV CHALLENGE
9th March 2010
Following a single performance at London's Barbican Centre on 29th April, Leif Ove returns to the studio with the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano to record Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto for release on EMI Classics this Autumn. Coupled with the Third Piano Concerto...
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| EXQUISITELY NUANCED PLAYING WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES
1st March 2010
Evening Standard reviews the Wigmore Hall concert
Both the major bicentenary composers, Schumann and Chopin, featured on the recital programme of Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on Saturday. But the crucial element of fantasy was not ideally captured in any of their pieces....
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| BIRTHDAY PREPARATIONS FOR LEIF OVE
27th February 2010
This April Leif Ove Andsnes will be celebrating his 40th birthday but before he has got round to making his own party planning Austria's Radio Stephansdom has beaten him to it. From 6th - 10th April two of the radio station's programames - "Mattinata" and "Continuo" - will be making...
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| NUCHTERE, PRAKTISCHE PIANIST UIT NOORWEGEN
25th February 2010
Eindhovens Dagblad's reviewer wished the concert would never end...
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| LEIF OVE STARS IN JO STRØMBERG'S NEW FILM "THE NEIGHBOUR"
24th February 2010
Two neighbours.
A lonely pianist on one side of the wall.
A couple with domestic problems on the other.
They can hear each other.
"The Neighbour" is a film about man and woman, about single people, about the chance to start over again, about chances that are long gone....
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| POLAND SAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHOPIN
23rd February 2010
A whole host of special birthday concerts will take place in the Polish capital from this week, in the first of three events that will dominate Chopin Year. Organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, a series of concerts held between 22nd February and 1st March 2010, will celebrate...
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| "EXCELENTE MÚSICO DE CÁMARA"
15th February 2010
El Periódico previews this week's concert in Madrid
Desde su debut a principios de los años noventa, la carrera del pianista noruego Leif Ove Andsnes ha suscitado un enorme interés. En 2002 le fue otorgada la Real Orden de San Olav, máximo galardón de Noruega, y ha recibido otros...
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| "STEMMER HÅRFINT"
13th February 2010
Test your Norwegian in this article on Leif Ove's trusted piano tuner
Leif Ove Andsnes holder seg til Thron Irby når han turnerer i Norge.
– Han er en av de få jeg stoler 100 prosent på, sier pianisten.
Går du på konsert med en av de store klaverutøverne i landet, kan du nesten...
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| LIVE ON PIAZZA VERDI
10th February 2010
On Saturday 20th February Leif Ove will perform live on Italian Radio (RAI 3) flagship's show "Piazza Verdi". In the studio he will talk about his upcoming recital in Milan on Sunday 21st February and also his most recent project Pictures Reframed which took Europe by storm last...
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| EUROPEAN RECITAL TOUR 13 FEBRUARY - 1ST MARCH
9th February 2010
Leif Ove performs in Warsaw on the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth, as part of Poland's major celebrations
Leif Ove Andsnes is about to embark on a European recital tour which commences with a performance in Schloss Elmau in Germany and takes him on to Spain (Zaragoza and Madrid),...
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| LEIF OVE CREATES TRAFFIC JAM AT TØNSBERG BOX OFFICE
9th February 2010
Its official. As tickets went on sale in Tønsberg, Norway, for Leif Ove's concert with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra on 9th March there was a stampede outside the local opticians where tickets were being sold! The Tønsberg Blad provides photographic evidence of the excitement...
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| ABU DHABI UNRAVELS MAMMOTH FESTIVAL PLANS
2nd February 2010
Leif Ove to perform Pictures Reframed at the Emirates Palace Hotel on 31st March
Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (Admaf) on Tuesday revealed details of its most ambitious event – The Abu Dhabi Festival, which boasts of 40 events, including top-class performances from the masters...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES ÜBERRASCHTE MIT SUBTILEM ANSCHLAG
30th January 2010
The Passauer Neue Presse reviews Mozart in Salzburg
Als Nikolaus Harnoncourt vor etwa 20 Jahren das erste Mal am Pult der Wiener Philharmoniker stand, konnte man an den Gesichtern der Orchesterbeamten ablesen, dass sie sich nur ungern gegen den Strich bürsten lassen und trotz des...
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| MOZART IN SALZBURG WITH THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
28th January 2010
This week Leif Ove Andsnes is in Salzburg for the famous Mozart Woche where last night he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto K.488 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Nikolas Harnoncourt at the Grosses Festspielhaus. He stays on in Salzburg to give a chamber music recital on Saturday...
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| THE RACHMANINOV CHALLENGE
20th January 2010
Leif Ove writes about the challenges of Rachmaninov's fourth piano concerto in advance of his concert with the London Symphony Orchestra on 29 April. http://lso.co.uk/detailedeventinfo&detailid=4845&showdetailstype=event...
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| GÖTEBORG ÖPPNAR VÅRSÄSONGEN MED ETT DRÖMPROGRAM
15th January 2010
Dagens Nyheter recenserar Andsnes, Dudamel och Göteborgs symfoniker.
Vårsäsongen i Göteborgs konserthus kunde inte ha öppnat mera förtätat och intensivt. Med ett drömprogram som gav tre gånger stående ovationer efter uruppförandet av argentinaren Esteban Benzecrys ”Rituales Amerindios”,...
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| RACHMANINOV'S FOURTH WITH SUN AND SNOW
14th January 2010
Hot on the heels of his New York itunes event Leif Ove Andsnes flew to Venezuela to join Gustavo Dudamel and the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra for some New Year's music making in the sun which included Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 4. Last night Leif Ove and Gustavo were back in...
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| SWEDISH RADIO RECORDED CONCERT
14th January 2010
P2 Musikradion will broadcast the recorded concert from Gothenburg on February 25th. ...
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| PIANIST PÅ STÄNDIG RESA
13th January 2010
Göteborgs Posten talks to Leif Ove before the concerts in Gothenburg.
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| IS IT LIVE, OR IS IT ITUNES? APPLE STORE AS RECITAL SPACE
4th January 2010
The New York Times reviews Leif Ove's in store performance which marked the first classical piano event of its kind.
People passing by the new Apple Store on Broadway and 67th Street on Sunday evening noticed something unusual happening inside the spacious salesroom: a pianist...
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| COSE MAI VISTE
1st January 2010
Pictures Reframed is cover feature in Il Giornale della Musica...
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| "AN ELEGANT, DYNAMICALLY FLUID READING"
31st December 2009
So said the New York Times of Leif Ove Andsnes' performance of Mozart Piano Concerto K.488 which he performed with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert on both 29th and 30th December.
Also reviewing Concertonote.com commented "Nobody could query Leif Ove Andsnes who, hopefully,...
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| SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
24th December 2009
The Wall Street Journal interviews Leif Ove Andsnes in advance of his performances with the New York Philharmonic
The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is widely regarded as one of the most gifted musicians of his generation. But such a distinction can be both burden and blessing...
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| LIVE AT THE APPLE STORE: LEIF OVE ANDSNES IN NEW WORK ON 3RD JANUARY
23rd December 2009
EMI Classics artist and Grammy-nominated pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has recorded over 30 classical music albums with a repertoire that spans from Bach to the present day. Called a "princely pianist" he has won four Gramophone Awards. Join us at the new Apple Store in New York City...
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| KLAVIERSAITEN TANZEN BALLET
22nd December 2009
The Kölner Rundschau reviews the Cologne concert
In der Kölner Philharmonie hatte die Medieninstallation „Pictures reframed“ die letzte Station ihrer Welttournee. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes schlägt mit Mussorgskys Klavierzyklus „Bilder einer Ausstellung“ die Brücke zur Gegenwart.
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| DER KLARE, KERNIGE TON DES NORWEGERS ...
22nd December 2009
The Köln Stadt Anzeiger reviews the Cologne concert
In der Kölner Philharmonie hatte die Medieninstallation „Pictures reframed“ die letzte Station ihrer Welttournee. Thema des norwegischen Pianisten Leif Ove Andsnes und des südafrikanischen Medienkünstlers Robin Rhode war Mussorgskys...
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| AUDIENCE RESONANCE FROM PARIS
21st December 2009
From the Paris performance of Pictures Reframed, the audience give their reaction
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| LOOKING BACK AT PICTURES REFRAMED
21st December 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes left the stage in Cologne last night in a snow storm dramatically signaling the end of this Autumn’s major tour of Pictures Reframed which has seen him perform in 22 cities across East Coast America and throughout Europe.
And what a mammoth journey it has been...
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| KONKURRENDE BILDER
20th December 2009
Norway's Aftonposten reviews the Oslo performance
Leif Ove Andsnes er ikke skuggeredd. Han kunne halent seg tilbake og spilt konserter for et blåhåret publikum.
Med sedvanlig grundighet og dedikasjon kaster han seg inn i prosjekter som Pictures Reframed, der han har samarbeidet...
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| CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY IN THE CONCERT HALL
20th December 2009
Pictures Reframed reaches the Sri Lankan press!
Sometimes when I push my luck too far, it inevitably works. After rushing through many corridors and passages, I managed to sneak in for a preview of something my eyes failed to comprehend. I pinched myself to know whether I was dreaming...
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| ANDSNES FORLATER RISØR
17th December 2009
Norway's Aftenposten reports on Leif Ove's departure from the Risør festival
Samtidig går Det Norske Kammerorkester inn i et tettere kunstnerisk og administrativt samarbeid med Risørfestivalen, som etter oppstarten for 20 år siden i sterkere og sterkere grad har inntatt en ledende...
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| A VIRTUAL RENDERING OF A NON-STANDARD CONCERT
17th December 2009
The Examiner examines the DVD
When Pictures Reframed was given its world premiere in New York, New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini felt it was necessary to begin his November 16 review with the back-story:
"The remarkable Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is a self-effacing,...
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| LEIF OVE STEPS DOWN AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE RISØR FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER MUSIC
16th December 2009
Henning Kraggerud to replace Leif Ove Andsnes as Artistic Director from 2011
After 18 years as joint Artistic Director of the Risør festival of Chamber Music, Leif Ove Andsnes has decided to step down. Lars Anders Tomter will continue as Artistic Director and will be joined by...
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| WDR RADIO PREVIEWS THE COLOGNE PERFORMANCE
16th December 2009
to listen to the preview in German: http://gffstream-8.vo.llnwd.net/c1/m/1260966153/radio/scala/wdr5_scala_20091216.mp3k...
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| LA SALLE DE CONCERT EST DEVENUE UN LIEU DE RÉFLEXION
14th December 2009
Les Echoes reviews the Paris performance
Vu vendredi dernier un spectacle annoncé par les flyers et autres promo comme « du jamais vu ». Au théâtre des Champs Elysées un pianiste à la réputation de virtuose, le norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes jouait Moussorgski, Schumann… pendant la...
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| LAUF DER HÜHNER
11th December 2009
Tagesspiegel reviews Pictures Reframed at Radialsystem
Modest Mussorgskys „Baba Yaga“ mit irre laufenden Hühnern zu bebildern, beweist Humor und leises Wissen darüber, worum es eigentlich geht. Schließlich steht auch die Hütte der russischen Hexe, von der das Klavierstück mit Ausbrüchen,...
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| UN OVNI CONTEMPORAIN POUR MOUSSORGSKI
11th December 2009
Le Figaro previews the Paris concert
Vendredi soir, au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, le grand pianiste norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes et le vidéaste sud-africain Robin Rhode réinventent les «Tableaux d'une exposition». Un «spectacle total» qui a triomphé à New York, à Moscou, à Londres...
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| SUONO NEGLI OCCHI
11th December 2009
Cover story in Classical Voice...
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| ROBIN RHODE IM GESPRÄCH
11th December 2009
Art-in-Berlin talks to Robin Rhode about the creation as well as reception of Pictures Reframed
Anlässlich der Präsentation von "Pictures Reframed" - einer Performance um die Klavierfassung von Mussorgskys "Bilder einer Ausstellung" - im Berliner Radialsystem sprachen wir mit dem...
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| MOUSSORGSKY, LE CLAVIER BIEN IMAGÉ
11th December 2009
La Libération previews the Paris concert...
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| LEIF OVE & ROBIN ON WEST.ART
10th December 2009
German TV feature on WDR's West.art programme
Click on the link below to watch a great tv preview for Picture Reframed which was broadcast on 8th December. Repeat broadcast on Monday 14th December at 10.50 on WDR.
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| COMMENT FAIRE DIALOGUER MUSIQUE ET ARTS VISUELS?
9th December 2009
Figaroscope previews the Paris performance
Comment faire dialoguer musique et arts visuels ? La question n'est pas nouvelle. Au début de l'été 1874, Modest Petrovitch Moussorgski se la pose dans un cycle pour piano parmi ses opus les plus connus : Les Tableaux d'une exposition,...
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| MUSSORGSKI KOMMT INS TROCKENDOCK
9th December 2009
The Berliner Morgenpost previews the Berlin performance
Unwiderstehlich ist der Drang von Künstlern, Dichtern und Musikern, sich an der Verbindung der schönen Künste mit der schönen Musik zu versuchen. Das berühmteste Beispiel heißt "Bilder einer Ausstellung" und stammt von Modest...
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| NORWEGIAN TV SPECIAL WEEKEND BROADCASTS
9th December 2009
This month Norwegian TV will be broadcasting a weekend extravaganza of Leif Ove Andsnes.
On Saturday 12 December NRK1 will air a new portrait documentary at 22.15 following Leif Ove on his journey of creating the Pictures Reframed project whilst the following evening, Sunday...
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| THE ARTISTIC SENSATION OF THE YEAR
9th December 2009
t5m networks reviews the London concert
If you believe that music, like a kiss, is best enjoyed with your eyes closed, Pictures Reframed is not the show for you. Hailed as ‘the artistic sensation of 2009′, the concert presents Mussorgsky’s epic piano cycle Pictures at an...
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| LONDON CALLING ... LEIF OVE BACK ON STAGE
7th December 2009
Pictures Reframed reaches London and this week goes on to Naples, Berlin and Paris
The late night audience on Friday night in London gave Leif Ove Andsnes a standing ovation and called him back on stage repeatedly.
After a mammoth evening in which Leif Ove played the full Pictures...
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| CHILDLIKE IMAGINATION IS AT THE PROGRAMME'S HEART
7th December 2009
The Times reviews the London concert
Mussorgsky may never be the same again as Pictures at an Exhibition is given the video treament by Andsnes and Robin Rhode
Pictures at an Exhibition; but this is not the Great Gate of Kiev at all. It’s a sluice-gate in a Bergen dock, and...
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| LES "TABLEAUX" DE MOUSSORGSKI RETROUVENT UNE IMAGE
6th December 2009
Le Monde reports in advance of the Paris concert
Un pianiste seul sur scène, entouré de panneaux lumineux, interprète Modeste Moussorgski comme dans un écrin, puis une installation vidéo prend vie derrière lui. Le récital "Pictures Reframed" présenté samedi à Londres expérimente...
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| "I SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT ANDSNES' PLAYING, SHOULDN'T I?"
5th December 2009
Artsdesk.com reviews the London performance
We watch and listen simultaneously so much today that it hardly seems blasphemous for a superlative pianist to decide to conceive an evening of piano music plus video installation. Leif Ove Andsnes has doubts about the transmittability...
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| "TOUGH AND EARTHILY 'BLACK AND WHITE' ACCOUNT"
5th December 2009
The Independent reviews the London concert
The "pictures" of the title Pictures Reframed are Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition; the "reframing" is down to video artist Robin Rhode. But whether or not Rhode's visual imaginings serve as a stimulus to our own or merely an obstruction...
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| NEU BEBILDERTE AUSSTELLUNG
4th December 2009
The Süddeutsche Zeitung reviews the Munich performance
Auf der sinnlichen Ebene funktioniert das Projekt "Pictures Reframed" des Pianisten Leif Ove Andsnes und des Künstlers Robin Rhode, welches im Prinzregententheater Mussorgskys "Bilder einer Ausstellung" mit auf Leinwand projizierten...
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| NEUE BILDER EINE AUSTELLUNG
4th December 2009
Die Abendzeitung reviews the Munich performance
Nervös stromert Robin Rhode im mausgrauen Anzug durchs Foyer des Prinzregententheaters. Fremdes Terrain halt, der Streetartkünstler ließ sich ja quasi zur Klassik verknacken. Und jetzt scheint er sich erst mal die Leute anzuschauen,...
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| BILDER ZUR MUSIK
4th December 2009
The Münchner Merkur reviews the Munich concert...
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| ENTGRENZUNG UND VERSCHMELZUNG VON AUGE UND OHR
3rd December 2009
Die Welt reviews the Hamburg performance
Das Auge wird beim Sehen nicht satt, und das Ohr wird beim Hören nicht voll. So steht es in der Bibel. Und so haben Künstler seit Jahrhunderten danach getrachtet, die Wirkung des einen Sinnes durch die Reizung des anderen womöglich ins Unermessliche,...
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| BILDER EINE BAUSTELLE
3rd December 2009
Hamburger Abendblatt reviews the Hamburg performance
Alle Jahre wieder gegen Jahresende findet nicht nur Weihnachten statt, sondern auch ein Stiftertag, bei dem die privaten Gönner der Elbphilharmonie über den jeweils akuten Stand der Dinge auf der Hamburger Kultur-Großbaustelle...
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| “PAINTER AND POET AS WELL AS MUSICIAN”
3rd December 2009
Pictures Reframed continues to take Europe by storm
From Brussels - where Pictures Reframed was described as one of the “artistic sensations of 2009” - to Moscow, Stockholm, Hamburg and Munich, Leif Ove Andsnes is now gearing up for the London concert on Friday 4th December with...
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| MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
3rd December 2009
Grafik Magazine dedicates a 6 page arts special in advance of the London concert
We have seen so many articles and reviews written my music journalists on Pictures Reframed, its always interesting to see what the arts world perspective is. ...
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| LEIF OVE ON BBC RADIO 3
3rd December 2009
In advance of the London performance, Leif Ove appeared live on BBC Radio 3's flagship show, In Tune, performing in the studio and talking to Sean Rafferty about Pictures Reframed.
The feature remains available to listen to online for one week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
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| PICTURES TRANSFORMED
3rd December 2009
International Piano Magazine talks to the artists
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| WEICH UND PRÄZISE
2nd December 2009
NDR Kultur reviews the Hamburg performance
Ein Kind zündet eine Kerze an. Doch die Kerze ist keine Kerze, sondern nur das Bild einer solchen, und in Sekundenschnelle verbrennt unsere Illusion einer angenommenen Realität. Dieses erste kurze Video von Robin Rhode war Programm des...
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| SEEN AND HEARD SPECIAL FEATURE REPORT
2nd December 2009
An extract from an extensive report from the Brussels premiere on www.musicweb-international.com
I had already watched the video on the EMI DVD and although I was quite impressed by Rhode's imaginary graphic art work, it was Andsnes's playing that overshadowed each and all. But...
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| MUSSORGSKY ALS HIPPEN FILM-KLAVIER-HAPPENING
1st December 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes rahmt "Bilder einer Ausstellung"
Konzert ist nicht genug! Hunderttausende Zuhörer in Mitteleuropa tun zwar allabendlich nichts anderes als still da zu sitzen und Musikern zuzuhören. Eine schöne, preisenswerte Kultur-Leistung. Zu sehen gibt's dabei wenig. Ein Problem...
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| DEUTSCHE WELLE TV FEATURE
1st December 2009
Interviewing Leif Ove Andsnes in advance of the first German concert, Deutsche Welle tv features Pictures Reframed and visits the project from its beginnings to its arrival on stage in Hamburg
To see the clip in English visit: http://www.dw-world.com/dw/article/0,,4956773,00.html...
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| SCHÖNE NEUE KLANG - UND BILDERWELT
1st December 2009
Concerti magazine previews Pictures ...
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| BESONDERE AUFNAHMEN
1st December 2009
Piano News in Germany previews Pictures Reframed...
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| PIANO & VIDÉO
1st December 2009
France's Cadences features Pictures Reframed in their December issue ...
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| 3 RAISONS D'ALLER ÉCOUTER...
1st December 2009
ELLE chooses Pictures for their culture guide...
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| MUSSORGSKY TANZT JETZT MULTIMEDIAL
30th November 2009
Abendzeitung interviews Leif Ove before the Hamburg Concert
Von Argrich bis Tokarev - diese Woche dominiert der Steinway! Dazu setzen Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes und Performance-Künstler Robin Rhode die "Bilder einer Ausstellung" neu in Szene. Die AZ sprach mit dem Norweger. Er trägt...
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| KLASSIK-SPEKTAKEL KLINGENDE GEMÄLDE IN NEUEM RAHMEN
30th November 2009
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes schlägt mit Mussorgskys Klavierzyklus „Bilder einer Ausstellung“ die musikalische Brücke zur Graffiti-Kunst der Gegenwart: „Pictures Reframed“.
Seh- und Hörgewohnheiten aufbrechen! Ganz neue Konzertsituationen herstellen! Das Ritual der Klassik aufbrechen!...
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| PICTURES REFRAMED IN GERMAN RADIO
30th November 2009
Listen to the programmes by following the links below.
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES PÅ KONSERTHUSET
29th November 2009
DN & SvD reviews the concert
Konstnären Robin Rhode, med bakgrund i hiphopkulturen, har bildsatt Leif Ove Andsnes dynamiska pianospel. Konstverk som projiceras på väggarna under hela konserten.
För två veckor sedan riggades en skärm upp i Stora salen inför Thomas Adès pianokonsert,...
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| PICTURES IN STOCKHOLM
29th November 2009
Leif Ove was called back on stage no less than five times after performing Pictures Reframed in Stockholm's blue concert house. It was a magical evening.
"In Pictures at an exhibition, Andsnes moves smoothly between the explosive and the meditative, the energetic and the melancholic....
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| IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION
28th November 2009
The New York Times chooses "Shadows of Silence" for its Holiday Gift Guide
Its Thanksgiving in the States, the holiday season has officially started and its good news for those artists who have been chosen by The New York Times for the Holiday Gift Guide: Records of the Year. ...
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| BUY THIS CD WITH CONFIDENCE. NO PIANO GETS DROWNED, TRUST ME; AND YOU GET MATURE, FOCUSED ARTISTRY
27th November 2009
The Times reviews the new album
What’s your mental picture of the Great Gate of Kiev, the final exhibit in Mussorgsky’s piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition? Not, I bet, a grand piano drowning in the seething surf of the North Sea. Yet that’s the image conjured up by the painter...
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| THE PROMENADING ART LOVER
27th November 2009
The Independent reviews the new album
Though lacking an important element when separated from the visual settings devised by artist Robin Rhodes, Leif Ove Andsnes' performance here has much to recommend it. There's his delicate, fluttering touch, almost like a hammer dulcimer,...
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| BRUSSELS HAILS PICTURES REFRAMED AS ONE OF THE "ARTISTIC SENSATIONS OF 2009"
26th November 2009
At last! Pictures Reframed has arrived in Europe and was greeted in Brussels on Tuesday night with a full and rapturous house. The 2000 seater art deco hall was packed to the gills and a revered silence was sustained throughout the concert breaking into immediate applause as Leif...
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| LE PIANO DANS LA FLEUR
26th November 2009
La Libre Belgique reviews from Brussels
La salle plongée dans l’obscurité, le pianiste éclairé d’une simple poursuite qui s’éteint lorsque, entre deux morceaux, l’écran central s’illumine et s’anime, et cet étrange dispositif scénique, le piano devant le grand écran et cinq autres...
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| ARD MITTAGSMAGAZIN ANNOUNCES PICTURES IN GERMANY
26th November 2009
Follow the link below to watch the clip online.
The feature starts at 1'26.
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| PICTURES ON SWEDISH RADIO
26th November 2009
"Studio ett" talks to both Leif Ove and Robin
DET DRÄNKTA PIANOT
När Leif Ove Andsnes framför Musorgskijs "Tavlor på en utställning" dränks hela flygeln i finalen av forsande vatten. Scenen skapade han i en torrdocka i Bergen ihop med den sydafrikanske konstnären Robin Rhode....
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| MUSIKALISCHE UND VISUELLE BILDER
26th November 2009
Klassikinfo reports from Brussels
Leif Ove Andsnes & Robin Rhode touren derzeit mit ihrem Projekt "Pictures reframed" - ein visualisiertes Konzert mit Mussorgskys "Bildern einer Ausstellung" - durch Deutschland. In Brüssel war der Auftakt. Robert Jungwirth hat das Konzert besucht...
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| ANDSNES ASSAULTS THE GREAT GATE WITH A STORMING AND UNSETTLING PERFORMANCE
25th November 2009
Gramophone reviews the new album
Some artists announce their arrival on the world stage with a youthful fire and passion that settles into a more sedate maturity. Leif Ove Andsnes seems to be going in the opposite direction; always a musician of supreme finish and intelligence,...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES AND ROBIN RHODE DISCUSS THEIR EXTRAORDINARY "REIMAGINING" OF MUSSORGSKY'S BEST-LOVED WORK
25th November 2009
The Daily Telegraph takes a good look at the collaboration
In a dry dock stands a concert grand. The dock doesn’t stay dry for long, though, as water comes gushing in through opened floodgates. First it laps at the piano’s ankles, then gradually floods the strings and hammers of...
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| BELGIUM'S CRESCENDO MAGAZINE PREVIEW
25th November 2009
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| STARKES STÜCK
25th November 2009
Germany's Crescendo Magazine talks to Robin and Leif Ove
Der russische Komponist Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) schrieb im Jahr 1874 das erste Programm-Musikstück “Bilder einer Ausstellung”. Die einzelnen Sätze des Stücks beschreiben Gemälde und Zeichnungen seines...
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| PICTURES REFRAMED: EUROPEAN PREMIERE 24TH NOVEMBER IN BRUSSELS
23rd November 2009
“…a stunning achievement. Far more than merely another multimedia collaboration for our multitasking, iPod-toting era, it brilliantly illumines Mussorgsky’s achievement in ways that transcend the literalism of words, images, and notes on a page.”
So wrote the San Francisco Classical...
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| COLLABORATION OFFERS GLIMPSE OF WHAT RECITALS MAY OFFER
23rd November 2009
Houston Chronicle reviews the concert at the Wortham Theater Center's Cullen Theater.
Musicians of uncommon ability and curiosity are not always satisfied with the pleasurable repetition of recital and orchestral engagements. Their restless minds seek new challenges. Norwegian...
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| WHAT DID YOU ALL THINK...?
22nd November 2009
And just like that, former strangers were now connected and engaged.
On Friday night, sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Society, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes (in his first local appearance since a recital at Strathmore last year) and South African visual artist Robin Rhode...
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| PICTURES REFRAMED IN DE MORGEN
22nd November 2009
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| MODERNE ZEITEN IM KONZERTSAAL
22nd November 2009
Die Welt previews Pictures before the 5 German concerts
Mit Multimedia-Events und außergewöhnlichen Klanginstallationen wollen klassische Musiker in Hamburg dem Konzertbetrieb neue Impulse verleihen Die klassische Musik, heißt es, stecke in der Krise und müsse sich ein neues Publikum...
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| SO WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
21st November 2009
The Times preview: Leif Ove Andsnes combines music and visual art
Mussorgsky’s mighty piano work is to be played against a backdrop of modern video art. But will the gamble pay off? Plenty of artists have worked to a musical soundtrack. Eugène Delacroix palled around with Frédéric...
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| MOESSORGSKI KRIJGT NIEUWE LIJST
21st November 2009
De Standaard previews the european premiere of Pictures Reframed...
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| WIN TICKETS, DINNER AND CHAMPAGNE IN LONDON!
20th November 2009
Classic FM has tickets to the London performance of Pictures Reframed, on 4 December at 9.30pm at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre. Before the concert, the winner and a guest will be treated to dinner and a bottle of champagne at Skylon restaurant.
The winner will...
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| LES "TABLEAUX" RÉENCADRÉS
20th November 2009
La Libre Belgique on the new pictures...
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| LES TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION DE MOUSSORGSKY REVISITÉS
18th November 2009
Le Soir previews the Brussels performance
Le pianiste norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes et le plasticien performeur et vidéaste sud-africain Robin Rhode ont décidé de s’attaquer aux fameux « Tableaux d’une exposition », cette formidable évocation des croquis de l’architecte Hartmann confiée...
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| SOUND AND VISION: A PIANO RECITAL WITH A MULTIMEDIA HEART
16th November 2009
New York Times reviews the premiere
The remarkable Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is a self-effacing, substantive and completely unflashy artist. You would not peg him as someone curious to explore multimedia and reinvent the piano recital.
Yet several years ago Mr. Andsnes...
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| PICTURES REFRAMED PREMIERED
16th November 2009
On Friday, November 13, Vogue magazine’s website reported that “people were talking about” the world premiere scheduled that evening for “Pictures Reframed” at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City. That talk clearly translated into a sold-out show that night, which...
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| THE IDEAL PARTNERSHIP OF VISION, METAPHOR AND MUSIC
14th November 2009
concertonet.com reviews premiere of Pictures Reframed
Schoenberg refused to write music for movies unless the actors spoke-sang their lines. Rossini never ate in a restaurant with music (“An insult to the musicians and the chefs.”) One can name on two fingers the great operas based...
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| PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT...
13th November 2009
Vogue picks Pictures Reframed as the hottest music talk around town right now
A couple of years ago, the acclaimed Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performed on a grand piano precariously perched on the edge of a mountain cliff in Norway—classical music with a dash of vertigo....
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE INTERVIEWS LEIF OVE AND ROBIN
12th November 2009
Listen to the radio programme online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p004vqlm/The_Strand_12_11_2009/...
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| ESQUIRE MAGAZINE FEATURES PICTURES REFRAMED
11th November 2009
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| TIME OUT NEW YORK PREVIEWS PICTURES REFRAMED
10th November 2009
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to submerge a grand piano for art’s sake, but Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes knows a good image when he sees one. So did Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, whose piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition served as the inspiration for Pictures...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES AND ROBIN RHODE COME TOGETHER IN A RADICAL AND STUNNING INTERPRETATION OF MUSSORGSKY'S MASTERPIECE
10th November 2009
Dazed & Confused talk to both artists
At first glance, the South-African artist Robin Rhode and leading Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes seem like a pretty unlikely pairing, one of them has a back-history of creating politically-charged street-art while the other is one of the...
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| THE MEANING OF LEIF
9th November 2009
Classical Music Magazine talks to Leif Ove about reaching middle age...
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| AWASH IN NOTES? PIANO DROWNS IN ANDSNES CONCERT
5th November 2009
Reuters discuss Leif Ove's special project
It could be one of the most disturbing images in classical music since Charlotte Moorman played the cello in the nude and brought out the New York City vice squad.
Video footage of a black grand piano under tons of water in a Bergen dry...
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| PIANIST PÅ UTSTILLING
2nd November 2009
Leif Ove talks to Dagsavisen about Pictures Reframed
Leif Ove Andsnes tar den klassiske konsertformen et skritt videre i høst. Hans framførelser av Mussorgskijs «Bilder på en utstilling» er en visuell opplevelse som mange rockestjerner vil misunne ham.
– Altfor mange konserter...
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| PLAYING TO THE GALLERY
1st November 2009
BBC Music Magazine previews Pictures Reframed in the December issue....
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| THE PIANO MAN
1st November 2009
Norwegian Air inflight magazine portraits Leif Ove as cover feature this month...
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| GIORNALE DELLA MUSICA PREVIEWS PICTURES
30th October 2009
Riportare I quadri di un'esposizione di Mussorgskij alle arti visive» è un'idea tanto semplice quanto affascinante, se a realizzarla sono un giovane pianista norvegese di fama internazionale come Leif Ove Andsnes e un artista sudafricano tra i più interessanti del panorama contemporaneo...
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| CONTEMPORARY ART AND CLASSICAL MUSIC INTERACT MAGNIFICENTLY
29th October 2009
Flash Art previews Pictures Reframed and concludes: "...It's a highly theatrical moment, and an effective indicator of how working on a different existing format can constitute a liberating experience for both artists"
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| A RUNNING COMMENTARY WITH NEAR-HITCHCOCKIAN OVERTONES
28th October 2009
Rachmaninov concerto no. 4 in Scotland
Last weekend Leif Ove Andsnes performed Rachmaninov concerto no. 4 in three concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Stéphane Denève in Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
This coming weekend he travels to Rome to perform the...
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| PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION OPENS LINCOLN CENTER'S NEW VISIONS SERIES
28th October 2009
Playbill Arts announces: "Andsnes and Rhode Premiere Pictures Reframed Nov. 13-14"
Visual artist Robin Rhode and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes present the world premiere of Pictures Reframed at Alice Tully Hall Nov. 13 and 14. The unique performance of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition...
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| LEIF OVE FEATURES AS SPECIAL GUEST ON VIGGO PÅ LøRDAG (NORWEGIAN TV)
27th October 2009
View the programme online: http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/569102
Leif Ove Andsnes will be the special guest of the celebrity Norwegian presenter, Viggo Johansen, on this weekend's edition of Viggo på Lørdag broadcast nationally on NRK1, Saturday 31st October at 22.35. This week...
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| CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
27th October 2009
Derelict factories and disused shipyards ...
Classic FM Magazine previews Pictures Reframed: "Derelict factories and disused shipyards flooded with water aren't the first venues that spring to mind for a concert, but that's exactly where acclaimed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performed...
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| BBC TV NEWS
26th October 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode talk to BBC TV in advance of the London concerts on the 4th of December.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8328992.stm...
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| MUSSORGSKY CLASSIC GETS DROWNED IN SOUND
23rd October 2009
The Independent reports on Pictures Reframed: "On Monday at the Southbank Centre, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will unveil his new DVD, Pictures Reframed, in which a Steinway is ritually drowned. Two years previously he'd put this same instrument on a snowy mountain peak...
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| BODY, MUSIC AND WALL
20th October 2009
Italy's Urban magazine features Pictures Reframed....
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| ULIKE ENERGIER
13th October 2009
Det norske kammerorkester ville i mange retninger da de søndag åpnet sesongen i Operaen. Mozart var en gjennomgangsfigur. Aftenposten reviews the concert.
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| EN SMILENDE REISE MOT LYSET
13th October 2009
Vårt Land reviews concert at Oslo Opera & Ballet...
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| SAMSTEMT
12th October 2009
Genuin sesongstart med Andsnes og det Norske Kammerorkester
Med Leif Ove Andsnes som solist, urfremforing av en klaverkonsert av Bent Sorensen, Isabelle von Keulen som leder og Den Norske Opera som konsertsal, ble Det Norske Kammerorkesters sesongstart en kveld man vill huske en...
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| THE NORWEGIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PREMIERES BENT SORENSEN WORK WITH ANDSNES AT THE NORWEGIAN OPERA & BALLET IN OSLO 11th OCTOBER
11th October 2009
Per Erik Kise Larsen tells the story from the beginning...
We had worked with the idea for some time. As the director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, I wanted to programme some music for piano and orchestra in contrast to the classical pieces by Mozart and Beethoven. It makes...
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| MORGENSTEMNING I BJØRVIKA
10th October 2009
Klaverkonserten "Morgen", som danske Bent Sørensen har skrevet for Leif Ove Andsnes og kammerorkestret, ble unnfanget i en midnattstime på pianobaren Broadway i Wien.
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| GALLERY VIEW
28th September 2009
Gramophone pictures Leif Ove's latest project...
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| COLLABORATION IN RISØR
28th September 2009
Listen Magazine's Ben Finane visits Norway at midsummer and reports...
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| REAL CHAMBER PLAYING ...
24th September 2009
The Guardian reviews Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff in recital at London's Wigmore Hall
Although in Britain we generally hear him in solo recitals and playing concertos, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is an accomplished chamber musician, too, who has forged partnerships...
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| "TA-TSCHSCHSCH-TA-TSCH-DA-DA"
23rd September 2009
Art Das Kunstmagazin previews Pictures Reframed
Bekannt wurde Robin Rhode mit schnellen an eine Mauer oder auf den Asphaltboden aufgemalten Skizzen, zu denen er für die Foto- oder Filmkamera improvisierte. Im Herbst und Winter geht der in Berlin lebende Südafrikaner mit dem norwegischen...
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| KLASSISK MAGAZINE PREVIEWS PICTURES REFRAMED
23rd September 2009
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| PICTURES REFRAMED IS CENTERPIECE FOR LEIF OVE ANDSNES'S 2009-10 SEASON
22nd September 2009
“Pictures Reframed” – Collaborative Project with South African Artist Robin Rhode, Inspired by Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition – Is Centerpiece for New Season; World-Premiere Performances Set for November 13 and 14 at New York’s Lincoln Center, Followed by International Tour
Other...
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| "TRANSPARENT COLORINGS AND INCISIVE ARTICULATIONS"
7th September 2009
The New York Times reviews Shadows of Silence
ALTHOUGH the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has built his reputation in large part on elegant performances of standard repertory, he has also played a sizable number of contemporary works. His latest recording, “Shadows of Silence,”...
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| WHEN BRUSHSTROKES MET KEYSTROKES
23rd August 2009
Fall Preview 2009 of Pictures Reframed in New York Magazine
Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition was the composer’s attempt to re-create the experience of looking at paintings; now the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the South African artist Robin Rhode...
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| MUSSORGSKY'S "PICTURES" GOES MULTIMEDIA
21st August 2009
NPR's "All Things Considered" previews Pictures Reframed.
Robert Siegel interviews Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode In New York as they prepare for the premiere.
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes works within the refined world of classical music. But that doesn't mean he's not...
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| PIANISTIC PICTURES TRUMP DIVA IN NAPA
4th August 2009
The San Francisco Classical Voice reviews Napa Valley Festival concert
The Program began with Mussorgsky’s 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by one of the world’s finest — and most self-effacing — pianists, Leif Ove Andsnes. Part II featured the glamorous diva Renée Fleming...
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| MOZART RETURNS, WITH POSSE IN TOW
30th July 2009
The New York Times reviews Mostly Mozart concert
Alliteration aside, the beauty of the name Mostly Mozart — and the key to its proven ability to sustain a festival at Lincoln Center through 43 years of radically changing times — lies in the imprecision of the adverb, perennially...
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| IMPRESSIVE SUPPLENESS AND ABSOLUTE PINPOINT CLARITY ...
30th July 2009
The Star Ledger reviews Mostly Mozart concert
Leif Ove Andsnes' graceful take on a Beethoven piano concert opened this year's Mostly Mozart festival Tuesday night.
At opening night of Lincoln Center's 43rd Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall Tuesday night, one felt tempted...
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| WNYC IN INTERVIEW WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES
29th July 2009
Whilst performing in New York at the Mostly Mozart Festival, the US radio station WNYC caught up with Leif Ove Andsnes to talk about his latest recording "Shadows of Silence" and his upcoming recital programme "Pictures Reframed":
"Leif Ove Andsnes is among today’s most enterprising...
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| FESTIVAL DEL SOLE ENDS ON HIGH NOTE WITH ANDSNES
29th July 2009
The Napa Valley Register reviews festival concert
Festival del Sole 2009 ended on a high note Saturday with the bold stamp of the imperious Ludwig van Beethoven as interpreted by the award-winning 39-year-old Norwegian pianist, Leif Ove Andsnes.
One of the most compelling artists...
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| RECORD GEIJUTSU FEATURES LEIF OVE AS ARTIST OF THE MONTH FOR THE THIRD TIME
28th July 2009
It's an honour to be featured once in a lifetime as Artist of the Month in Japan's famous Record Geijutsu, but this month Leif Ove has been the subject of a 6 page feature detailing his career, for the third time in a period of just 4 years (once in February 2006 and again in June...
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| THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE REVIEWS SHADOWS OF SILENCE
26th July 2009
"Technical panache and emotional transparency"
This superb new disc from the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is a godsend for listeners convinced they don't like or understand contemporary music - and for anyone else besides. Deploying the same blend of technical panache and...
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| THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER REVIEWS SHADOWS OF SILENCE
19th July 2009
"Scintillating Clarity"
Leif Ove Andsnes talks about performing contemporary music "without tears" - his charming euphemism for music without pain. That said, this magnificently selected and played disc showcases some of the toughest musical personalities of our time, but with...
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| REVOLUTION IN RISØR!
8th July 2009
Classical Source reviews this year's festival
"Revolution" was the unifying theme of this year's Risør Festival, the nineteenth. By one of those extraordinary quirks of history, in 1795
whilst Beethoven was busy initiating a musical revolution in Vienna, a sailing ship put-in...
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| PICTURES REFRAMED PREVIEW IN RISØR
6th July 2009
It's midnight, it's still light and the heat is intense as Norway experiences a record summer. A crowd of 800 people are gathered outside an old fish factory on the harbour front waiting to take their seats for a performance that notches up a first in Leif Ove Andsnes' career. This...
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| POKER HOT HEAT FOR "REVOLUTIONARY" FESTIVAL
30th June 2009
The weather could not have been better. Whilst southern Europe was sitting in rain clouds the sun poured down on Risør for the 19th
annual festival, bathing the town in a dazzling light whilst boats skimmed across the glistening water. With the raging heat came this
year's theme...
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| ROMANTIC SOLUTIONS IN ROSØR
30th June 2009
The magic of Risør is that it is small and intimate. The downside is that there is only one hotel and a lot of demand for rooms. So the
Risør Festival has come up with a brilliant solution. For the second year running at the end of June an old cruise ship docked in Kristiansand...
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| CHAMBER MUSIC IN THE FJORDS
30th June 2009
De Standaard reviews the Risør Festival...
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| FRAMED IN MUSICAL STORYTELLING
26th June 2009
Aftenposten reviews Pictures Reframed in Risør
Noe lignende hadde de nok ikke sett før, de rundt 400 som benket seg i den store verftshallen på Holmen utenfor den hvite sørlandsbyen sent onsdag kveld og over i den første torsdagstimen: Kammermester Andsnes i kjent positur over...
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| NEW LOOK FOR VALIANT PIANO
24th June 2009
The valiant piano which features in the final movement of Robin Rhode’s film Pictures Reframed has been revealed as Mr 55834 from Germany. Built in 1908 by Rud Ibach & Sohn, the piano had a long and cherished career before it was discovered by Norwegian TV in the lobby of a hotel...
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| WHAT A PIANIST. WHAT A BAND.
22nd May 2009
The Glasgow Herald reviews concert from Norwegian Chamber Orchestra tour, Glasgow
WHAT an enthralling concert the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the great pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brought to Glasgow on Wednesday.
To be frank, I didn't know what to expect. It's a long time since...
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| A PASSIONATE, COMMITTED AND UTTERLY CONVINCING PERFORMANCE
20th May 2009
Seen and Heard reviews concert from Norwegian Chamber Orchestra tour, London
All standing and performing from memory, that’s a level of commitment rarely seen in orchestral playing on the London stage. In fairness, it was only Grieg’s Holberg Suite that was played without the dots,...
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| A PERFORMANCE FULL OF INSIGHT
20th May 2009
The Guardian reviews concert from Norwegian Chamber Orchestra tour, Birmingham UK
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes's successful collaboration with his compatriots, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, gained a Grammy nomination for their recording of two Mozart concertos earlier this year,...
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| Huge trust between pianist, concertmaster and orchestra.
19th May 2009
Concert review from Norwegian Chamber Orchestra tour, Birmingham UK
Currently on tour in the UK with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes and the ensemble are receiving great reviews for their distinctive and intimate partnership:
It’s all Norway at the moment. From...
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| Auf dem Walrücken musizieren
7th May 2009
Die Zeit previews the Risør Festival
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| Wenn die Stille explodiert
29th April 2009
Der Spiegel reviews Leif Ove Andsnes in concert and on CD
Ob Rachmaninow oder Schubert, der virtuose Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes kann alles. Auch vermeintlich spröde Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts gelingt dem Norweger spielend - und so klingt bei ihm sogar Stille anregend.
Rachmaninow...
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| VG Norway unveils Pictures Reframed set design in discussion with Leif Ove Andsnes
28th April 2009
In his first interview about Pictures Reframed Leif Ove Andsnes talks today to the Norwegian national paper, VG, in advance of the "sneak preview" performance at this year's Risør Festival on 24th June.
(VG) Leif Ove Andsnes tøyer grensene, ikke bare over klaveret. Nå samarbeider...
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| Dalbavie premieres in Paris and Amsterdam
15th April 2009
As "Shadows of Silence" - Leif Ove Andsnes' latest EMI Classics release which features Marc André Dalbavie's Piano Concerto - garners rave reviews, the pianist has simultaneously been performing the work in concert. In March he played with Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique...
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| Leif Ove voted no.1 soloist in Japan
8th April 2009
A one hour TV special entitled "NSO Hour" broadcast nationwide in Japan on 15 March chose Leif Ove Andsnes as the "Best Soloist of the Year" in 2008 following his performances of Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra last November.
Meanwhile in a general...
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| "L'un des des pianistes les plus profonds, le plus justes du moment ..."
6th April 2009
Le Monde reviews Shadows of Silence
Seuls quelques grands noms peuvent se permettre la "folie" d'enregistrer pour un grand label un programme d'oeuvres contemporaines. C'est le cas de Leif Ove Andsnes, l'un des pianistes les plus profonds, le plus justes du moment, qui a signé,...
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| Pictures Reframed goes live
26th March 2009
Plans are under way for this Autumn's major project entitled "Pictures Reframed" in which Leif Ove Andsnes is joined by artist Robin Rhode, in a specially created programme featuring music, film and pictures. With a major tour planned in the States and Europe, a CD and DVD release...
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| RISØR
20th March 2009
Risør Festival featured in the BBC Music Magazine
In the February issue of the BBC Music Magazine, Nick Shave reports on the musical pleasures of the 2008 festival (see attached article).
Meanwhile the 2009 festival is announced to take place from 23 - 28th June; the programme...
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| OPENING THE FLOODGATES
17th March 2009
In 2007 Norwegian TV filmed Leif Ove Andsnes perched at the top of a mountain playing Grieg. Now the same crew has just filmed Leif Ove playing Mussorgsky in a disused ship yard in Bergen as water flooded in. Why? The filming is part of a new TV profile on Leif Ove Andsnes as he...
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| "Nimble Fingers"
14th March 2009
Shadows of Silence CD review in The Times
This contemporary programme from the pianist pointedly avoids the cerebral. French finesse and playfulness characterise the two concertos, even when one of them is Polish (Lutoslawski's). Marc-André Dalbavie's enjoyable and eccentric concerto...
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| "Stunning"
10th March 2009
concert review of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto in London
There is a great deal to be said for keeping a restraining rein on the romanticism of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto. The composer himself was scarcely over-indulgent on the recording he made in 1939-40, playing a...
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| "Refreshing and Absorbing"
10th March 2009
concert review of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto in London
... From first note to last, this was a refreshing and absorbing account of Rachmaninov’s most-expansive piano concerto, a performance of co-operation, integration and discretion, which allowed the most ‘full-on’ moments...
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| "Quiet luminosity and luxuriant tone"
9th March 2009
concert review of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto in London
The Independent, Edward Seckerson, 9th March 2009
Purposefully written for his concert tour of the USA in 1909, Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was designed to impress. It’s a show-off piece ... But, as the gifted Norwegian...
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| Teeming with detail and subtle shifts of light
9th March 2009
concert review of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto in London
* * * * * The Guardian, Erica Jeal, 9th March 2009
Antonio Pappano isn't actually principal guest conductor of the LSO, but he might as well be, given the frequency of his visits and the strength of the relationship he...
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| Enduring Partnership
9th March 2009
concert review of Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto in London
The Times, Neil Fisher, 9th March
One of the great pleasures of experiencing Antonio Pappano on the concert hall podium, rather than his more familiar position in the Royal Opera House pit, is just what a physical impression...
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| FIRST REVIEWS OF SHADOWS OF SILENCE
9th March 2009
EMI Classics has just released Leif Ove Andsnes' new recording of work
by contemporary composers Sørensen, Dalbavie, Lutoslawski and Kurtag.
The first reviews for the album are just appearing
"Leif Ove Andsnes is that rare thing - a pianist of huge stature in
core classical...
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| "With the energy of your dreams possibilities are endless"
4th March 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes as Ambassador for StatoilHydro's "The Heroes of Tomorrow" programme
As an upcoming, young pianist, Leif Ove Andsnes received his first sponsorship from StatoilHydro aged 20 in 1990 and today, nearly two decades on, he is a household name in Norway and internationally...
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| Changing a Monster into a Russian Beauty
2nd March 2009
Leif Ove Andsnes performs Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto in Stockholm and Hamburg
Leif Ove Andsnes is on tour again performing Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto, a work he played often in his earlier years but which he returned to this season for the first time in nearly a decade....
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| Live on "In Tune"
2nd March 2009
This Wednesday (4th March) you can hear Leif Ove Andsnes live on BBC
Radio 3's flagship show "In Tune" at 18.15 GMT. The interview is
available to listen to on the BBC Radio 3 website for the following
week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/intune/.
In interview Leif Ove will...
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| Exquisite taste and fine judgment
4th February 2009
concert review
The Los Angeles Times, Rick Schutz
Musicians who work together don’t have to be friends. But after hearing pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and violinist Christian Tetzlaff in a stunning duo recital Thursday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, it clearly doesn’t hurt if they...
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| Putting Solo Careers Aside to Work a Stage Together
3rd February 2009
concert review
The New York Times, Anthony Tommasini
In chamber music it is often hard to say what makes a particular pairing of players succeed. The German violinist Christian Tetzlaffand the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes routinely take time from their thriving solo careers...
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| When music journeys beyond technique
3rd February 2009
concert review
The Boston Globe, Jeremy Eichler
It took all of seven seconds on Saturday night in Jordan Hall to tell that this recital was the real deal.
The packed house had not even fully quieted down when the violinist Christian Tetzlaff tore into the opening of the Janacek...
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| Duo brings restraint and passion to McCarter recital
2nd February 2009
concert review
The Star Ledger, Willa J. Conrad
Sunday's duo recital in Princeton by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes was an immaculate affair. During two hours of performing at the McCarter Theatre, neither player broke a sweat or a string. Not a note...
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| Vivid, powerful, shocking music from two great players
30th January 2009
Concert review
The Globe and Mail, Vancouver, Elissa Poole
The first gesture of Leos Janacek's Violin Sonata, an anguished and violent wail from a violin, snatched and amplified by piano, is shocking music. It was even more shocking on Wednesday night at the Chan Centre, when...
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| Concert review of Cleveland performance
28th January 2009
Cool Cleveland, Kelly Ferjutz
Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist we Clevelanders can claim as well as any other part of the world. After all, it was here in 1990 (at Blossom, actually) that he made his US debut with our orchestra. He is a tall, lean and elegantly muscular...
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| Divine Duo
27th January 2009
concert review
San Francisco Classical Voice, Michelle Dulak Thomson
It’s not all that easy to maintain an artistic partnership if your primary job is “star.” Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, stopping in at Herbst Theatre last Tuesday night under the auspices of San Francisco Performances,...
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| Bonded as musicians and Friends
26th January 2009
Concert pre-view
The Los Angeles Times, David Mermelstein
In advance of their Los Angeles concert together, Christian Tetzlaff and Leif Ove Andsnes talk to the Los Angeles Times. Together Andsnes and Tetzlaff will perform six concerts together across the States in a programme...
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| Cleveland Orchestra: A Concert-and-a-Half at Severance Last Week
26th January 2009
Concert review
ClevelandClassical.com, Daniel Hathaway
No one can have gone away from the Cleveland Orchestra’s concerts last week feeling unsated. If a concert is like a well-planned menu, this Debussy-Rachmaninoff-Janáček repast was satisfyingly varied and may even have...
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| Cleveland Orchestra has exhilarating night
24th January 2009
Concert review
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Following on from his exhilerating performance of Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto in Washington, Leif Ove Andnses travelled to Ohio to perform the work with one of his favourite orchestras and conductor, the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz...
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| Leif Ove Andsnes Returns to the U.S.
21st January 2009
Returning to the U.S. for the first time since the spring, Leif Ove Andsnes made the nation’s capital his first stop for performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the National Symphony Orchestra. Like most of the East Coast, Washington DC was under siege from some...
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| NSO's Refreshingly Quirky Program Seals the Deal With Rachmaninoff
16th January 2009
concert review
The Washington Post, Anne Midgette
A time-honored convention of orchestra programming is that you start with a short piece, possibly contemporary; follow it with a concerto; and finish, after the intermission, with a slightly longer work for orchestra alone. So...
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| And the nominees are...
4th December 2008
On 3rd December the Nominations for the 51st Grammy Awards were released in Santa Monica and EMI is delighted to announce that Leif Ove Andsnes' recording of Mozart Piano Concertos nos 17 & 20 with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has been nominated in the category Grammy Award for...
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| Returning to Rachmaninov
26th November 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes is returning to one of the war horses of the piano repertoire - Rachmaninov piano concerto no. 3 - after a break of over a decade. This was the work he recorded in 1995 as a young international star on EMI Classics together with the Oslo Philharmonic and Paavo...
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| Growing Success in the Far East
15th November 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes recently returned from another successful tour of Japan and Asia where his fame continues to grow at a fast pace. Performing two different recital programmes within one week of each other in Tokyo, the first concert in Ohi Hall sold out within days of going on sale...
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| "Pictures at an Exhibition - Reframed"
3rd October 2008
An usual start to the planning of an usual project for 2009
This summer Leif Ove Andsnes made an unusual stop off in Berlin. This stop-off did not involve a visit to the Philharmonie nor a meeting with fellow musicians. In fact he didn't play a single real note. Instead he joined...
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| Was für ein Kontrast!
12th August 2008
Leif Ove Andsnes makes his Salzburg Debut Recital
Although Leif Ove Andsnes made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1997 with the Oslo Philharmonic and Maris Jansons he has only just made his recital debut in what proved to be two extraordinary concerts in the series entitled "Schubert-Szenen"....
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| Bühne Magazine portraits Leif Ove Andsnes as he makes his Salzburg Festival recital debut
5th August 2008
Vom Luxus der Stille
Ein ruhiges Porträt über den norwegischen Starpianist Leif Ove Andsnes, der bei den Salzburger Festspielen (26. Juli bis 31. August) gastieren wird.
Er gehört seit Jahren zum Jetset des internationalen Konzertzirkus und das eigentlich ein wenig unfreiwillig....
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| Reflections on Risør
3rd July 2008
Now in its eighteenth year, Risor Kammermusikkfest – held in a small port some 250 kilometres south of Oslo – remains a gold standard and a beacon amongst the plethora of music festivals that spring up like so many exotic plants and then frequently wither away.
Risor has not...
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| The New York Times reviews Mozart disc
24th June 2008
The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is an eloquent interpreter of so many composers, from Schubert and Grieg to Nielsen and Britten, that you tend to trust his instincts when he moves in a new direction. His first Mozart concerto recording, a pairing of Nos. 9 and 18, prized the...
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| Andsnes DVD Ballad for Edvard Grieg wins The Golden Prague "Grand Prix"
19th June 2008
Last night the awards ceremony for the 45th International Television Festival, The Golden Prague, took place in the Zofin Palace in Prague. Organised by Czech Television, it has become the world's most important television festival dedicated to music and dance on television. The...
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| THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC
28th May 2008
On 12th May Leif Ove Andsnes was announced as a new member of the prestigious The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. "...Andsnes keeps his world wide audience under a spell with his personal, exciting and imaginative interpretations of Grieg, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Schumann...making...
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| 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 from...
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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 again...
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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 Zugabenteil...
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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 be...
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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 remembers...
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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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| MAJOR RECITAL TOUR TAKES LEIF OVE ANDSNES ACROSS EUROPE AND THE STATES
12th March 2008
On 2nd March Leif Ove Andsnes embarked on a major 22 city recital tour which sees him perform this Spring in Århus, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, London, Prague, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Milan, Rome, Florence, Graz, Vienna, Brussels, Regensburg, Atlanta, Birmingham AL, Strathmore,...
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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 han...
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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 même...
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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 them...
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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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| THE TELEGRAPH'S CD OF THE WEEK
2nd February 2008
Mozart: Piano Concertos in G, K453 and D minor, K466
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
EMI 5 002812, £12.99
The best of the new releases: Mozart, Sibelius, Respighi and more...
These concertos...
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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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| SCHUBERT LATE SONATAS TO APPEAR IN BOX SET
21st January 2008
This February EMI Classics release a two-CD set featuring Schubert’s three late great Piano Sonatas, D. 958, D. 959, and D. 960. Andsnes recorded the sonatas as part of his enthusiastically received series of Schubert recordings with English tenor Ian Bostridge, which featured pairings...
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| INSPIRED BY OLD MASTERS, AND EACH OTHER'S ARTISTRY
19th January 2008
The New York Times reviews Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2
That the musicians of the New York Philharmonic play so well for Riccardo Muti cannot be explained simply by their well-established respect for this eminent conductor’s skills. Their relationship has that inexplicable chemistry...
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| 2008 USA PRESS RELEASE
18th January 2008
CELEBRATED NORWEGIAN PIANIST LEIF OVE ANDSNES RETURNS TO U.S. IN JANUARY 2008 FOR CONCERTO PERFORMANCES WITH BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
ANDSNES WILL GIVE 22 SOLO RECITALS ACROSS EUROPE AND AMERICA IN SPRING, INCLUDING PERFORMANCES IN SIX U.S. CITIES (APRIL...
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| FOR ONE PIANO MASTER, A BALANCING ACT
18th January 2008
Boston Globe interview feature
It's difficult to put one's finger on what makes Leif Ove Andsnes such a compelling artist, but it has a lot to do with his remarkable sense of balance. In his playing, the Norwegian pianist is able to hold in equipoise various competing demands:...
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES RECORDS MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO'S NOS 17 AND 20
18th January 2008
“After this first foray, Mr. Andsnes may get pressure from Mozart lovers to record them all…his stylish accounts of these concertos are among the most revelatory Mozart records of the year.”
(The New York Times on EMI’s CD of Concertos Nos. 9 and 18)
Leif Ove Andsnes has recorded...
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| BALLAD FOR EDVARD GRIEG: LEIF OVE ANDSNES TRACES THE COMPOSER'S FOOTSTEPS ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH
18th January 2008
“I always feel a sense of homecoming when I perform Grieg yet I don’t think that this is necessarily because I am Norwegian. Grieg’s music has a universal feeling – a sense of drawing the listener in – and that is probably why he remains Norway’s most eminent composer even now,
100...
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| FROM FJORD TO FAME: A NORWEGIAN CONCERT PIANIST HITS THE WORLD STAGE
17th January 2008
Out of the land of Grieg comes Leif Ove Andsnes. His mission: to compete with ringtones, iTunes, and YouTube for short attention spans.
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes talks about interpreting classical music.
Norway, ah Norway. The land of rugged mountain men who scale...
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| PROFESSORSHIP IN OSLO
27th September 2007
Commencing this Autumn, Leif Ove Andsnes has taken up a part-time post as Professor at the
Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Alongside various masterclasses Leif Ove will teach two students on a regular basis throughout the academic year.
Commenting on the announcement Leif Ove...
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| GRIEG ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE RESONATES AROUND THE WORLD
25th September 2007
"Meltingly sensitive and fiercely transporting ... Andsnes, thankfully is something better than Grieg's best champion: he is Grieg's best critic."
This was the quote from The Times in reaction to Leif Ove Andsnes' private performance of Grieg's Ballade in G minor which took place...
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| Ballad for Edvard Grieg
29th August 2007
The music of Edvard Grieg (1843- 1907) is a cornerstone of Leif Ove Andsnes’s career; his recordings of the composer’s Lyric Pieces for solo piano and the evergreen Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons were Gramophone Award winners in 2002 and 2004 respectively....
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| LEIF OVE ANDSNES: 2007/2008 SEASON OVERVIEW
17th August 2007
CELEBRATED NORWEGIAN PIANIST CELEBRATES GRIEG CENTENARY WITH PERFORMANCES OF GRIEG’S BALLADE IN G MINOR BOTH IN CONCERT AND ON NEW EMI CLASSICS RECORDING AVAILABLE AUGUST 28
ANDSNES WILL PLAY BRAHMS’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 FOR FIRST TIME WITH ORCHESTRAS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA INCLUDING...
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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