Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2022

Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2022

The 2022 Rosendal Festival will take place from 7 to 10 July – one month earlier than usual – and will celebrate the music of Beethoven. The program will be based on the one Leif Ove Andsnes planned for 2020 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the composer’s...
Mozart Momentum – review highlights

Mozart Momentum – review highlights

“The first volume, covering the year leading up to Le Nozze di Figaro, incorporates three masterpieces, the turbulent D minor (K466), and the contrastingly sunny C major (K467) and E flat major (K482). If the great D minor seems to foreshadow Don Giovanni (1787), the...
Gramophone names Mozart Momentum Recording of the Month

Gramophone names Mozart Momentum Recording of the Month

Leif Ove Andsnes was the cover feature on the May issue of Gramophone Magazine to tie in with his release of Mozart Momentum 1785. Now Gramophone has chosen the CD as its Recording of the Month: “How inspiring that something so enriching should have come out of...
2021 Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, 5 – 8 August

2021 Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, 5 – 8 August

“From my Homeland” is the title of this year’s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, which takes place from 5 – 8 August and focuses on the music of Antonin Dvořák. Over four days, Leif Ove Andsnes and guest artists will explore the great Czech composer’s works and...
MOZART MOMENTUM GATHERS SPEED

MOZART MOMENTUM GATHERS SPEED

On this day – 9 March – in 1785, Mozart completed his Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467. Whilst the ink was still wet the parts were being copied for the concerto’s premiere which took place the very next day. Both Piano Concerto Nos. 20 and 21 were...