Leif Ove Andsnes’ Chopin album is nominated for an International Classical Music Award, voted by a jury comprising 18 of Europe’s leading classical music media. Meanwhile the latest reviews for the album has have been posted by the Financial Times and Musicweb-international.com
“How did Chopin play the piano? A veil of mystery will always stand between us and composers who lived before the invention of recording … Every pianist today has to make his own choices. In his latest recording Leif Ove Andsnes is a model of sympathetic understanding — never exaggerated, or self-seeking, and keeping close to the letter of the score without seeming literal or dogmatic. He also makes a warm, mellow sound, which is a constant pleasure, a long way from the steely brilliance of the Russian virtuoso school.”