STORMEN ÅPNER DØRENE

On Friday 14 November, Leif Ove Andsnes joined a star studded line up to launch the brand new concert hall in Bodø, in the North of Norway. Playing a movement from Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata on the hall’s new Steinway-  which Leif Ove had personally...

LEIF OVE IN INTERVIEW WITH MUSIK UND THEATER

“Happiness – Imbued with crystalline clarity, animated by a bright tone – This is Leif Ove Andsnes’ Beethoven. Never previously has the Norwegian pianist recorded the work of the piano Titans in the studio. For long he was convinced he was not...

“DOWNRIGHT SPLENDID”

As Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra gear up for their residency at the Lucerne Piano Festival next week, the Aargauer Zeitung reviews the journey on disc and comments: “Just to play – not everyone can do. Just to play and then in addition...

“LOOKING UPWARDS”

Leif Ove features in today’s Süddeutsche Zeitung in advance of his concerts this weekend with the Munich Philharmonic and conductor Thomas Dausgaard. “His touch is immaculate, round and clear. His most recent recordings are setting new standards in terms...

FEEL THE MUSIC AWARDED “EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR”

At a prize ceremony in Berlin yesterday, “Feel the Music” was awarded the European Cultural Brands Award 2014 in the category “European Educational Program of the Year”. Now in its third year, “Feel the Music” is a project bringing...

LIVE ON NRK’S P2 TONIGHT

Tune into Norway’s classical radio station NRK P2 tonight at 19.30 for an indepth talk with Leif Ove Andsnes on the Beethoven Journey in the week that Sony Classical releases the box set of all the piano concertos   Source: NRK RADIO