FINDING “SOMETHING TO SAY”

The New York Times reviews Leif Ove’s Carnegie Hall recital “Many young virtuoso pianists perform the Beethoven sonatas as a demonstration of their musical depth. But when he emerged as a major young artist, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes avoided...

THE BEETHOVEN JOURNEY COMES TO NEW YORK CITY

“The Beethoven Journey”: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 is Album of the Week on WQXR and Leif Ove returns to Carnegie Hall with all-Beethoven performance. “These performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 live up to the standard that...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT REVIEW BEETHOVEN VOLUME 2

The Independent “Leif Ove Andsnes responds to an almost childlike wonder and innocence in these concertos with a performance full of optimism and light – his involvement in the lengthy, rhapsodic cadenza in the second concerto’s Allegro con brio is particularly...

LEIF OVE ANDSNES DISCUSSES HIS BEETHOVEN JOURNEY

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has lent his distinctive, sensitive artistry to works ranging from Bach to contemporary compositions since he was a teenager. But there has been one major area of the repertoire that his fans have not seen him fully explore until...