“The best way to start 2022”

“The best way to start 2022”

Following Friday’s much anticipated release of Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes’ new Grieg recital album on Decca Classics, the first reviews are flowing in. Today’s Sunday Times named it “Classical Album of the Week” and the Mail on Sunday gave it a...
Mozart Momentum – Awards and Nominations

Mozart Momentum – Awards and Nominations

Following international critical success of Mozart Momentum 1785 – released last May – the album has been awarded a Diapason d’or de l’année by France’s leading classical music magazine and Radio France. The UK’s Gramophone Magazine named it one of “The...
“The best way to start 2022”

Grieg with Lise Davidsen

Leif Ove Andsnes and fellow Norwegian, soprano Lise Davidsen, have recorded an album dedicated to Edvard Grieg’s songs, including the famous Hauglussa song cycle.  The new album – to be released on January 7 2022 on Decca Classics – is available to...
Mozart Momentum tours at last

Mozart Momentum tours at last

It was a case of “fourth time lucky” for Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra after three failed attempts to perform Mozart together in concert. When Mozart Momentum was launched in 2019, Leif Ove Andsnes was obliged to cancel due to illness...
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...