Performing with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Performing
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

Programme also includes
Julian Anderson: The Crazed Moon
Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur

Vielseitigkeit und Flexibilität, ein Repertoire, das von der Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart reicht, ungewöhnliche Präsentationsformen und außergewöhnliche Projekte und natürlich Interpretationen auf höchstem musikalischen Niveau: Das Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) ist im nationalen und internationalen Musikleben eine feste Größe. Die Liste seiner Chefdirigenten ist von illustren Namen geprägt wie Ferenc Friscay, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly. Seit 2017/18 steht der britische Dirigent Robin Ticciati an der Spitze des DSO und sorgt dort für Furore.

Solist dieses Konzerts ist der norwegische Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Die Presse feiert ihn als „einen Pianisten von meisterhafter Eleganz, Kraft und Einsicht“, als „einen der begabtesten Musiker seiner Generation“. Mit souveräner Technik und spannenden Interpretationen überzeugt er nicht nur auf dem Konzertpodium, er hat sich damit auch zahlreiche internationale Preise erspielt.

Performing with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Performing
Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 482

Programme also includes
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito . Overture, K. 621
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (“Eroica”), Op. 55

The different faces of Viennese Classicism at one concert: a late opera overture by Mozart, one of his mature piano concertos, and a hugely influential symphony by Beethoven that pries open formal conventions. A major Berlin symphony orchestra with an exciting history, one of the greatest Northern European piano stars of our era and a British conductor who despite – at age 38 – his relative youth has been racking up triumph after triumph for many years and has already appeared before the Hungarian audience more than once as a guest of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. This time, Robin Ticciati will be visiting us at the helm of his own orchestra, as he has served as the chief conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2017.

Performing with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Performing
Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 482

Programme also includes
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito . Overture, K. 621
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (“Eroica”), Op. 55

Julian Anderson(*1967 Londen) studeerde o.a. bij Messiaen en Ligeti en heeft al heel wat prestigieuze functies bekleed. Vier jaar was hij hoofd van de afdeling compositie van het Londense Royal College of Music. Daarna was hij drie jaar werkzaam aan Harvard University in de V.S. Tegenwoordig is hij in dienst van de Londense Guildhall School of Music and Drama, als leraar compositie en als ‘composer in residence’. Een functie die hij ook elders uitoefende, in Birmingham, Cleveland en in Londen, voor de beroemde Wigmore Hall.

Voorafgaand aan dit concert wordt in de foyer een inleiding gegeven die u gratis kunt bijwonen, aanvang 19:30u. Meer informatie hierover volgt z.s.m.

Performing with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Performing
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

Programme also includes
Julian Anderson: The Crazed Moon
Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur

Julian Anderson(*1967 Londen) studeerde o.a. bij Messiaen en Ligeti en heeft al heel wat prestigieuze functies bekleed. Vier jaar was hij hoofd van de afdeling compositie van het Londense Royal College of Music. Daarna was hij drie jaar werkzaam aan Harvard University in de V.S. Tegenwoordig is hij in dienst van de Londense Guildhall School of Music and Drama, als leraar compositie en als ‘composer in residence’. Een functie die hij ook elders uitoefende, in Birmingham, Cleveland en in Londen, voor de beroemde Wigmore Hall.

Voorafgaand aan dit concert wordt in de foyer een inleiding gegeven die u gratis kunt bijwonen, aanvang 19:30u. Meer informatie hierover volgt z.s.m.

Performing with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Performing
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

Programme also includes
Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur
Sa technique époustouflante et son imagination musicale font du Norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes l’un des pianistes les plus acclamés au monde.

Friand du répertoire romantique, il s’attaque au Concerto pour piano de Schumann, marqué par une écriture impétueuse. Dans la fosse, le Britannique Robin Ticciati, à la tête du magnifique Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, se confronte à la puissance de la première symphonie de Mahler : la « Titan ».

Performing with
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, conductor

Performing
BRITTEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 – PSO Premiere

Programme also includes
WYNTON MARSALIS: Fanfare – PSO Premiere / Co-Commission
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

Sensuous, exotic. “Scheherazade” is a spectacular showpiece to display the astounding virtuosity of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck. These concerts also feature the premiere of a new fanfare by Wynton Marsalis. And Leif Ove Andsnes plays the beguiling First Piano Concerto of Benjamin Britten. “A satin touch,” the Vienna Zietung raves: “The man is born to play the Steinway.”

Performing with
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, conductor

Performing
BRITTEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 – PSO Premiere

Programme also includes
WYNTON MARSALIS: Fanfare – PSO Premiere / Co-Commission
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

Sensuous, exotic. “Scheherazade” is a spectacular showpiece to display the astounding virtuosity of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck. These concerts also feature the premiere of a new fanfare by Wynton Marsalis. And Leif Ove Andsnes plays the beguiling First Piano Concerto of Benjamin Britten. “A satin touch,” the Vienna Zietung raves: “The man is born to play the Steinway.”

Performing with
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Performing
Britten: Piano Concerto

Programme also includes
R. Strauss: Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from Intermezzo
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings his “effortless command and penetrating clarity” (The New York Times) to Britten’s Piano Concerto, a glittering score composed during the lead-up to World War II. Riccardo Muti frames the program with Richard Strauss’ contemplative “Dreaming by the Fireside,” from his opera Intermezzo, and Schumann’s triumphant Fourth Symphony.

Performing with
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Performing
Britten: Piano Concerto

Programme also includes
R. Strauss: Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from Intermezzo
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings his “effortless command and penetrating clarity” (The New York Times) to Britten’s Piano Concerto, a glittering score composed during the lead-up to World War II. Riccardo Muti frames the program with Richard Strauss’ contemplative “Dreaming by the Fireside,” from his opera Intermezzo, and Schumann’s triumphant Fourth Symphony.

Performing with
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Performing
Britten: Piano Concerto

Programme also includes
R. Strauss: Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from Intermezzo
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings his “effortless command and penetrating clarity” (The New York Times) to Britten’s Piano Concerto, a glittering score composed during the lead-up to World War II. Riccardo Muti frames the program with Richard Strauss’ contemplative “Dreaming by the Fireside,” from his opera Intermezzo, and Schumann’s triumphant Fourth Symphony.

Performing with
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Performing
Britten: Piano Concerto

Programme also includes
R. Strauss: Symphonic Interlude No. 2 from Intermezzo
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 4

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brings his “effortless command and penetrating clarity” (The New York Times) to Britten’s Piano Concerto, a glittering score composed during the lead-up to World War II. Riccardo Muti frames the program with Richard Strauss’ contemplative “Dreaming by the Fireside,” from his opera Intermezzo, and Schumann’s triumphant Fourth Symphony.

Performing with
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Performing
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor

Programme also includes
Sergey Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes is one of the world’s most prominent and in-demand concert pianists. He debuted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Since then, he has appeared on Konserthuset’s large stage on several occasions, most recently in 2014 in a solo recital dedicated entirely to Beethoven. Now we hear him perform Robert Schumann’s beloved Piano Concerto, which is in fact reminiscent of Grieg’s equally popular concerto in several ways. Both concertos begin similarly, with a characteristic powerful orchestral chord followed by falling chords on the piano.

Prokofiev said his fifth symphony is a tribute to the “generosity, strength and spiritual purity of the free and happy individual. I did not deliberately choose the theme; rather, it came to me, then matured, and had to be expressed”. He surely felt at that time like a chosen and privileged person. Since 1941, he had been living with Mira Mendelson, who would be his second wife. He was one of the country’s most esteemed and frequently played composers. In addition, the war would soon be won.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Franz Welser-Möst, who received the Eric Ericson Honorary Chair in 2018. He conducts the orchestra for two weeks each season.

Performing with
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Performing
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor

Programme also includes
Sergey Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes is one of the world’s most prominent and in-demand concert pianists. He debuted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Since then, he has appeared on Konserthuset’s large stage on several occasions, most recently in 2014 in a solo recital dedicated entirely to Beethoven. Now we hear him perform Robert Schumann’s beloved Piano Concerto, which is in fact reminiscent of Grieg’s equally popular concerto in several ways. Both concertos begin similarly, with a characteristic powerful orchestral chord followed by falling chords on the piano.

Prokofiev said his fifth symphony is a tribute to the “generosity, strength and spiritual purity of the free and happy individual. I did not deliberately choose the theme; rather, it came to me, then matured, and had to be expressed”. He surely felt at that time like a chosen and privileged person. Since 1941, he had been living with Mira Mendelson, who would be his second wife. He was one of the country’s most esteemed and frequently played composers. In addition, the war would soon be won.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Franz Welser-Möst, who received the Eric Ericson Honorary Chair in 2018. He conducts the orchestra for two weeks each season.

Performing with
Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra
Tabita Berglund

Performing
Benjamin Britten : Piano Concerto (1938)

Programme also includes
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)
Edward Elgar : Enigma Variations (1899-99)

On this all-British evening, Leif Ove Andsnes, our internationally
acclaimed piano star, performs Benjamin Britten’s virtuoso, melodic and easily accessible piano concerto, which was a great success when the 25-year-old composer premiered it in 1938. Tabita Berglund and KSO’s strings begin with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beautiful and calm imagination on a theme by the Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. After a break, we can enjoy Edward Elgar’s magnificent and multifaceted works of variation, built on his own theme and where a number of friends and colleagues are portrayed.

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
Lise Davidsen, Soprano

Programme:
​Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) – Op. 48, Op. 67 Haugtussa
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) – Op. 27, Op. 39
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) – Wesendock Lieder

Bergen International Festival Programme Note:
Throughout the corona period soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes have harvested brilliant reviews for their concerts together, In January 2022 they are due to release their Grieg album – their first recording collaboration – centred on the Haugtussa song cycle.

The concert programme consists of excerpts from their Grieg album, from Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and from the songs dedicated by Richard Strauss to his wife on the occasion of their marriage. With two musical greats joining forces to interpret Norwegian heritage and German lieder, there can be little doubt that the result will be anything other than exquisite.

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
Marc-André Hamelin, Piano

Programme:
JOHN ADAMS (1947–)
Hallelujah Junction

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Transcribed by CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
Six Ctudies in Canonic form, op. 56

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
En blanc et noir, L. 134, CD. 142

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)
The Rite of Spring

Bergen International Festival Programme Note:
Leif Ove Andsnes, Norway, and Marc-André Hamelin, Canada, have both won numerous prizes, performed on countless stages and received acclaim worldwide for their music. In duo format their unique talents combine in perfect balance.

Their collaboration started in 2017 when they toured internationally together with a programme featuring Stravinsky’s piano duet version of the Rite of Spring. The concerts were met with glowing reviews and resulted in a critically acclaimed album recording released in 2018. In Grieghallen, in addition to Rite of Spring, they perform works by John Adams, Robert Schumann and Claude Debussy.

It is a rare privilege to experience two major soloists performing together.

‘Many are scared of this and feel vulnerable; the touch of any two pianists is different, two instruments may vary enormously and the sensitivity of the strings is bound to differ. Just getting timing and rhythm together can be very challenging,’ commented Leif Ove Andsnes as the outset of the collaboration with Hamelin.

Now the Grieghallen audience can look forward to what the master pianists dared.

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
Terje Tønnesen, Artistic Director

Programme:
Richard Wagner, Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24, KV 491
Jean- Philippe Rameau, Suite fra Acanthe et Cephise

Det Norske Kammerorkester Programme Note:
In the series of Norwegian international soloists, we end the season with two jubilee days in the Aula, where we give you two different programs in two days.

Leif Ove Andsnes, with us, has always been a good match, and now we take up some of what we lost last March, when he was to play with us. Leif Ove loves Mozart, and on the program are his piano concerts no. 22 and 24, and in addition one of the concertos.

Together with Terje, we will also make up for some of what was lost from what should have been his final season with us, but which the pandemic put an end to. Now we give him elbow room with some of what he himself is most passionate about of the orchestra repertoire. And then we know that it will be both exciting and good!

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano
Terje Tønnesen, Artistic Director

Programme:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 22, KV482
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ch ‘ I forget you?
Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Singer
Benjamin Britten, Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge

Det Norske Kammerorkester Programme Note:
In the series of Norwegian international soloists, we end the season with two jubilee days in the Aula, where we give you two different programs in two days.

Leif Ove Andsnes, with us, has always been a good match, and now we take up some of what we lost last March, when he was to play with us. Leif Ove loves Mozart, and on the program are his piano concerts no. 22 and 24, and in addition one of the concertos.

Together with Terje, we will also make up for some of what was lost from what should have been his final season with us, but which the pandemic put an end to. Now we give him elbow room with some of what he himself is most passionate about of the orchestra repertoire. And then we know that it will be both exciting and good!