CLASSIC FM MEETS LEIF OVE AT HOME IN BERGEN

In advance of Concerto – A Beethoven Journey, which hits cinemas across Britain on Monday September 7, Classic FM went to Bergen to meet with Leif Ove and preview the film

“CONCERTO” SCREENINGS ACROSS THE UK FROM SEPTEMBER 7

“One of the highlights of the BBC Proms so far has been Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra” writes Gramophone Magazine, “and if you’re suffering withdrawal symptoms from music-making of such freshness...

THE END OF A JOURNEY

“After 55 cities, 22 countries, four years and three CDs, there was perhaps only one place for Leif Ove Andsnes’s “Beethoven Journey” with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to come to an end: with the Emperor Concerto in front of 6,000 people in the...

“UTTERLY ABSORBING PERFORMANCES”

With the very last performance of The Beethoven Journey just a few hours from now, the musicians are getting in gear for what will be an emotional farewell. Meanwhile the UK critics have been paying tribute to the final residency in the four year project …...

PROMS: PIANIST’S ‘INTENSE’ RELATIONSHIP WITH BEETHOVEN

BBC news meets Leif Ove in rehearsal in London as he prepares for the final prom “For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, his appearance at the BBC Proms on Sunday will mark the end of a “musical pilgrimage” which has seen him perform Beethoven...