“LEIF OVE ANDSNES BLAZES OUT A RACHMANINOFF RARITY”

The New York Times reviews Leif Ove’s first concert with the New York Philharmonic in his Artists’ Residence series ” … The superb pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who has played and recorded the Rachmaninoff concertos to acclaim, has made a special...

BACHTRACK.COM IN INTERVIEW WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES

Bachtrack.com interviews Leif Ove about his new Sibelius album and his upcoming recital tour: Andsnes will be playing some of these Sibelius pieces in his upcoming recital at the Royal Festival Hall and around Europe, in a programme that also includes Beethoven,...

LEIF OVE ANDSNES RETURNS TO NEW YORK

Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes a welcome return to New York next week, when he launches his season-long tenure as Artist-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic with accounts of Rachmaninoff’s rarely-programmed Fourth Concerto under Paavo...

SIBELIUS ALBUM RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL ACCOLADE

Leif Ove Andsnes’ new Sibelius album has reached No. 2 in the French classical charts and received glowing reviews from around the world in just the one month since its release.  Here are a few sample highlights: “like crystals of ice in the sunlight …...

SIBELIUS’ “PIANISTIC GEMS”

Highlights from the first reviews for Leif Ove Andsnes’ new Sibelius album: “How could such beauties have escaped us? What didn’t we know about Sibelius’s piano works … Negligible compared to his orchestral corpus, really? No doubt we had not met the...