Over the coming season, Leif Ove Andsnes returns to New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Celebrity Series, and three more U.S. destinations for solo recitals of Schumann, Janáček, and Kurtág, before performing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with both the Chicago and Atlanta Symphonies. Beyond the States, the celebrated Norwegian pianist opens Montreal’s Bourgie Hall season with a solo program that also takes him to Brazil, Taiwan, and Japan. In concert, he joins the Oslo Philharmonic for the world premiere of a new concerto by his compatriot Ørjan Matre, plays Beethoven’s Third with the London Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Danish National Symphony, and others; and undertakes Brahms’s Second with ensembles including the Spanish National Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, and Tokyo’s NHK Symphony. To complete the season, he embarks on two chamber recital tours, joining violinist Christian Tetzlaff for sonata programs in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Bucharest, and collaborating with fellow pianist Bertrand Chamayou in Berlin, Brussels, Dijon, Madrid, Oslo, and Amsterdam. Andsnes’s Schubert four-hands recording with Chamayou is due for release on Warner Records this November 28, followed by a solo album on the Simax label, featuring music by Norway’s Geirr Tveitt, next spring.
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