An avid chamber musician, Leif Ove Andsnes embarks on European duo recital tours with two of his most trusted collaborators this fall. Following their recent world premiere performance of Winter Sonata by Abbado Prize-winning South Korean composer Donghoon Shin, the pianist reunites with Christian Tetzlaff to perform the work alongside duo sonatas by Mozart, Ravel, and Brahms at Bucharest’s Enescu Festival (Sep 13), Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Library (Sep 14), Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal (Sep 16), and London’s Wigmore Hall (Sep 17). He and the German violinist are musical partners of long standing. After one of their previous performances, The Scotsman characterized them as “simply in a class of their own,” adding: “Their truly collaborative musical language was one which spoke with direct humanity to connect with the audience on a seldom experienced, deep, emotional level.”
Andsnes returns to the Boulez Saal as the final stop of a tour with fellow pianist Bertrand Chamayou. At duo recitals in Dijon, France (Nov 18), Madrid (Nov 23), Oslo (Nov 30), Brussels (Dec 1), Amsterdam (Dec 3), and Berlin (Dec 5), they juxtapose the great works that Schubert composed for piano, four hands, during his final year, with solo and four-hands selections from Kurtág’s Játékok. It was after a similar program in Edinburgh that The Guardian pronounced the two pianists “equal partners, supreme musicians.”
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