“COMPELLING AND GRIPPING”

The Times reviews Matthias Georne and Leif Ove Andsnes in recital at the Wigmore Hall in London: “No one does death like Matthias Goerne. The eyes stare, the body describes every melodic arc of anguish, the bass register penetrates the very heart of darkness. So...

“THOUGHTFUL RECITAL WHICH TOOK DEATH AS ITS THEME”

The Financial Times reviews Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes in recital at the Wigmore Hall in London: “Most recitalists treat programme-making as a secondary art: a bit of light and dark, fast and slow, to point up contrasts, modulate a theme and display a...

“DARING, EVEN SHOCKING PROGRAMME”

Classical Iconoclast reviews Matthias Georne and Leif Ove Andsnes in recital at the Wigmore Hall in London: “At the Wigmore Hall, London, Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes performed Mahler in a unique programme built around Shostakovich’s Suite on...

MAHLER AND SHOSTAKOVICH IN LIEDER RECITAL

Seen and Heard International reviews Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes in recital at the Wigmore Hall in London: “This was in almost all respects a distinguished recital, at least as much for Leif Ove Andsnes’s playing as for Matthias Goerne’s singing;...

“PHENOMENAL MUSICALITY”

Goldenplec reviews Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Dublin The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is an extremely unusual group, free from state funding and founded in 1997 by Claudio Abbado and a group of players from the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra who...