LEIF OVE ANDSNES’ EUROPEAN RECITAL TOUR

From October 23 to December 3, Leif Ove Andsnes will take a new recital programme on tour across Europe with performances in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, UK Germany, Holland, Italy and Belgium. The programme opens with five pieces by Sibelius which also feature in...

“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...