“BRAHMS TO SAVOR, TO REVEL, TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY.”

Leif Ove Andsnes’ tour this month with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Herbert Blomstedt has received an outpouring of touching reviews paying tribute to the 91 year old conductor and his partnership with both orchestra and pianist. Listen to the live radio broadcast...

CHOPIN ALBUM NOMINATED FOR INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARD

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...

GRAMOPHONE FEATURES “THE 50 GREATEST BEETHOVEN RECORDINGS”

Following Gramophone’s focuses on the 50 greatest Mozart, Bach, Chopin and Handel recordings, the magazine has now gathered 50 of the finest recordings of Beethoven’s music – Gramophone Award-winning albums, Recordings of the Month and Editor’s...

“WITH TENDER TOUCH”

Classicalsource.com reviews Leif Ove Andsnes’ Chopin album “Andsnes commands immediately with the opening of the G-minor Ballade, a man with a firm opinion as to how this music goes. From dramatic introduction to elfin dexterity via lyrical song, there is...

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: EDITOR’S CHOICE

This month’s BBC Music Magazine has chosen Leif Ove Andsnes’ Chopin disc as Editor’s Choice in the Instrumental category: “Revealingly, Leif Ove Andsnes remarks in the liner notes that Chopin’s Ballades ‘are so difficult to perform because...