Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes’ recording of Schumann’s Liederkreis  Op 24 and Kernerlieder has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Solo Vocal category.  The recording was also recently named Vocal Recording of the Year 2019 by both Australia’s...

Leif Ove Andsnes is currently in the United States performiing Grieg's piano concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. Following hugely successful concerts in Boston they take to the stage tonight in New York's Carnegie Hall. Here's what the...

Folllowing the huge success of this month's Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy masterclasses in Bergen, applications have now opened for the winter masterclasses which take place from 28 January - 4 Febrary 2020. Joining Leif Ove Andsnes for these masterclasses are fellow...

Leif Ove Andsnes Returns to U.S. for Back-to-Back Concerto Dates: Grieg with Boston Symphony, including Carnegie Hall (Nov 14-18), and Mozart with San Francisco Symphony (Nov 22-24) Leif Ove Andsnes returns to the States for a pair of major, back-to-back orchestral...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Oslo Philharmonic have returned home this week following a triumphant European tour with chief conductor Vasily Petrenko, celebrating the orchestra’s 100th birthday.  Central to the programme was Grieg’s piano concerto - which also featured in...

Leif Ove Andsnes joins Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September for two gala concerts celebrating the orchestra's 100th birthday. Leif Ove performs the first movement of Grieg's Piano concerto - a work which featured on the...

Leif Ove Andsnes first performed Grieg's piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1993 at the orchestra's Ravinia Festival in a special programme for young talent. He returns this autumn on the invitation for Riccardo Muti to celebrate the opening of the...

"Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor has been a concert hall mainstay since its 1869 Copenhagen debut. In recent decades the concerto has lost some of its formerly ineradicable status, the work’s big melodies and extrovert solo part seemingly too accessible and...

The Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy has the pleasure of inviting young musicians to participate in piano master classes with Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Ihle Hadland and Jens Elvekjær. Dates: 29 October-5 November, 2019 / Location: Reksten Collections, Bergen, Norway. The...

Leif Ove Andsnes opens his Artist in Residence with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra this week. Göteborgs Posten meets with him to talk about Grieg. The first time the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes played in Gothenburg was 1989 under conductor Neeme Järvi. Now...

BBC Radio 3’s Record Review has chosen Leif Ove Andsnes' recording of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto as their top recommendation on Building a Library. Check out the Record Review podcast here: Source: BBC Radio 3 Record Review

Concertos by Grieg and Mozart figure prominently in Leif Ove Andsnes’s programming this season. As 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence of Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony, the celebrated Norwegian pianist launches the orchestra’s season with performances of Grieg’s Piano...

Concertos by Grieg and Mozart figure prominently in Leif Ove Andsnes’s programming this season. As 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence of Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony, the celebrated Norwegian pianist launches the orchestra’s season with performances of Grieg’s Piano...

Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto must come with the territory if you’re a Norwegian pianist, yet Leif Ove Andsnes hasn’t played it for a dozen years. All that changed yesterday evening in Tivoli Gardens, kicking off a run of 21 performances around the globe this autumn,...

"Det københavnske barokorkester CoCo havde fået den sublime nordmand Leif Oe Andsnes med på at tage sin landsmand Greigs mestervaerk på en uvant tidsrejse i Tivoli" Read the full review online in Danish (subscription only) or view the pdf Source: Politiken

For fjerde år på rad var vakre Rosendal i Hardanger åsted for Norges beste og mest interessante kammermusikkfestival. I år var musikken publikum fikk oppleve alt annet enn rosenrød. Temaet for årets festival var Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, komponisten som har blitt stående...

" ... At Leif Ove Andsnes’s astonishing fourth Rosendal Chamber Music Festival in the picturesque Barionet Rosendal of the western Fjord district of Norway’s Hardanger, two singers swept the audience stratospherically above the earth. They are the Ukrainian baritone...

"... Fewer idylls than this picture-book backdrop promise the program of festivals, which in this year Dmitri Schostakovich's life and work are meticulously examined - with the British musicologist and composer Gerard McBurney as well as experts in the repertoire at...

"Established four years ago in Rosendal - the only Barony in Norway,  two hours from Bergen, where until that time Leif Ove Andsnes had come for more than two decades to give his most cherished and spiritually important concert of his season - this festival was...

On 24 August, Leif Ove Andsnes and Concerto Copenhagen join forces for a special performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto at Tivoli: "Edvard Grieg’s piano concerto represents for many people the ultimate, quintessential Norwegian music. Understandably enough, as the...

"An immediate conclusion. In a discussion with some of the artists invited by Leif Ove Andsnes to perform at the fourth Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, it quickly became clear … most of them found the summer playing and music exploration particularly special....

"The art of chamber music festival curating: lots of music, but not overwhelming; Change of concert halls and formats, variable lengths, good artist mixing, an exciting topic. Leif Ove Andsnes took all this into account in the fourth edition of his Rosendal Chamber...

"The art of chamber music festival curating: lots of music, but not overwhelming; Change of concert halls and formats, variable lengths, good artist mixing, an exciting topic. Leif Ove Andsnes took all this into account in the fourth edition of his Rosendal Chamber...

Leif Ove Andsnes summons the Russian composer at the Rosendal Festival, which proves its most rounded and ambitious edition to date" "Norway shares just two hundred kilometers onto bordering Russia on the northeast corner of its territory, but it is the most protected...

"Det er vakkert og vilt i Rosendal. Det er storslåtte utsyn over fjorden, det er ruvende fjell, det er dramatisk vær som på få minutter veksler fra strålende sol til storm og høljende regn. Og nå i starten av august er det også vakkert, vilt og dramatisk innendørs....

As this year's festival comes to an end, Germany's Welt am Sonntag talks to Leif Ove Andsnes about Rosendal's extraordinary history and beauty. "In Norway, if you say "Rosendal", then everyone smiles. Everyone combines it with some beautiful memories of the Versailles...

" ... For the Shostakovich panorama, which is as compact as it is complex, Leif Ove Andsnes has brought in the expert Gerard McBurney ... Not only did he make arrangements of some of the chamber music works but also brought with him Alexander Vustin, born in 1943, as...

Leif Ove Andsnes' performance of Britten's Piano Conceto at the Proms last night with Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra is broadcast on BBCTV 4 tonight. Below are highlights of some of the today's reviews and audiences can listen to the live broadcast on...

As Founding Director of Norway’s annual Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, Leif Ove Andsnes curates and performs at the fourth edition this summer. Paying tribute to Dmitri Shostakovich, who went by the musical signature “DSCH,” the 2019 festival comprises nine...

"It is music for gourmets, Liederkreis op. 24 and Kernerlieder, both from Robert Schumann. The composer colors the poems of Heinrich Heine and Justinus Kerner brightly, but he goes even further. The piano part sings on when the voice is silent and finishes the melody,...

Leif Ove Andsnes is suffering from pneumonia and with enormous regret must withdraw from his concerts with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Frankfurt this week and in Berlin next Tuesday.  These were to have been the launch of his Mozart Momentum 1785/1786 project with...

Leif Ove Andsnes is recovering from pneumonia and with enormous regret must withdraw from his remaining concerts on the Mozart Momentum 1785/1786 tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in France and Portugal. This tour was to have been the launch of his Mozart...

Having performed for years together on stage, Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes have now released their first album together, dedicated to Schumann's Leiderkreis and Kernerlieder. First reviews for the new Harmonia Mundi recording are now in: Goerne has been...

Announcing a new Artistic Partnership with Leif Ove Andsnes, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra launches a brand new project website for the Mozart Momentum 1785/86: Leif Ove Andsnes became the Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s first Artistic Partner during the Beethoven Journey,...

"Four years after the end of the colossal Beethoven Journey, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is preparing to live with Mozart ..." reports Le Figaro today. Read the full interview in advance of the launch of MOZART MOMENTUM 1785/86 - Leif Ove Andsnes' new project...

At a gala event in Brussels, Belgian National Radio (VRT) awarded "Best Internaitonal CD" to Leif Ove Andsnes' Chopin Album. Alongside various tributes the jury commented "Leif Ove Andsnes performs with the technical class, intelligence and emotion that are so unique...

In MOZART MOMENTUM 1785/1786, a new performing and recording project spanning four years, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes join forces once again to explore two remarkable years in the history of classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in Vienna...

Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou wil be leading this year's Spring masterclasses presented by the Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy in Bergen from 26 - 31 May. Applications are open for young pianists from all countries to apply. As an exclusive opportunity, only 6...

For the fourth Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, Leif Ove Andsnes, has chosen the title “DSCH” – the musical signature of Dmitri Shostakovich. Over four days from 8 - 11 August, Andsnes and this year’s guest artists will perform a wide spectrum of the Russian...

"I am sorry to have to confirm what some of you may have already read elsewhere.  Due to an elbow injury that will require additional time to fully heal, I am compelled to cancel my US recital tour, which was to have begun later this week, as well as my concerto dates...

BBC Radio 3’s Record Review has chosen Leif Ove Andsnes' recording of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto as their top recommendation on Building a Library. Check out the Record Review podcast here: Source: BBC Radio 3 Record Review

Leif Ove Andsnes– “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight” (New York Times) – returns to North America in the New Year for a solo recital tour. With a colorful new program of Schumann’s Three Romances and Carnaval, Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path,...

It is with sincere regret that Leif Ove Andsnes finds himself forced to cancel his upcoming performances in Brussels (16 Dec), Moscow (18 Dec), and St. Petersburg (19 Dec). He is indisposed with an elbow injury, but looks forward to returning to the concert stage...

Belgium's Klara Radio features Leif Ove Andsnes as "Artist of the Week" as he embarks on a new recital tour which takes him to Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels, Moscow and St Petersburg. Leif Ove continues the recital tour in the New Year with performances in Boston, La...

Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's recording of Stravinsky on Hyperion has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance" The 61st Grammy Award Ceremony takes place on Sunday 10th February in Los Angeles...

Leif Ove Andsnes’ tour this month with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Herbert Blomstedt has received an outpouring of touching reviews paying tribute to the 91 year old conductor and his partnership with both orchestra and pianist. Listen to the live radio broadcast...

Leif Ove Andsnes’ Chopin album is nominated for an International Classical Music Award, voted by a jury comprising 18 of Europe’s leading classical music media.  Meanwhile the latest reviews for the album has have been posted by the Financial Times...

Following Gramophone's focuses on the 50 greatest Mozart, Bach, Chopin and Handel recordings, the magazine has now gathered 50 of the finest recordings of Beethoven's music – Gramophone Award-winning albums, Recordings of the Month and Editor's Choice discs, from...

Classicalsource.com reviews Leif Ove Andsnes' Chopin album "Andsnes commands immediately with the opening of the G-minor Ballade, a man with a firm opinion as to how this music goes. From dramatic introduction to elfin dexterity via lyrical song, there is a story to...

This month's BBC Music Magazine has chosen Leif Ove Andsnes' Chopin disc as Editor's Choice in the Instrumental category: "Revealingly, Leif Ove Andsnes remarks in the liner notes that Chopin’s Ballades ‘are so difficult to perform because everything is transitional’....

France's leading classical music website, Resmusica.com, has just gone live with a review of the new Chopin album, making it one of their "Les Clefs de mois" discs: "... Unlike those of Johannes Brahms' opus 10, for example, Chopin's four ballades, whose composition...

Leif Ove Andsnes' new Chopin album continues to attract international attention. Here are highlights of some of the most recent reviews. La Liberté, Switzerland: "Magnetic Chopin: This is the value of great scores: they allow themselves to be reinterpreted, always...

Belgium's Klara Radio features Leif Ove Andsnes as "Artist of the Week" as he embarks on a new recital tour which takes him to Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels, Moscow and St Petersburg. Leif Ove continues the recital tour in the New Year with performances in Boston, La...

Leif Ove Andsnes' new Chopin album has been chosen as CD of the Week by Belgian National Radio (VRT) with the comments: "Leif Ove Andsnes combines the four ballads of Chopin with three of his nocturnes, and that seems a rather unusual and illogical combination. But...

Following Gramophone's focuses on the 50 greatest Mozart, Bach, Chopin and Handel recordings, the magazine has now gathered 50 of the finest recordings of Beethoven's music – Gramophone Award-winning albums, Recordings of the Month and Editor's Choice discs, from...

Leif Ove Andsnes' new album of Chopin is launched today on Sony Classical and the first revews have already started coming in: Radio Classique: "Andsnes brings to Chopin his unique sensitivity, a combination of modesty and introspective virtuosity.”                  ...

The New York Times interviews Leif Ove Andsnes on the day that his new recording of Chopin is released: According to Leif Ove Andsnes, some piano classics can survive bad performances. The greatness of Beethoven and Brahms come through no matter what. Not so much with...

Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's recording of Stravinsky on Hyperion has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance" The 61st Grammy Award Ceremony takes place on Sunday 10th February in Los Angeles...

Leif Ove Andsnes, “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight” (New York Times), kicks off his 2018-19 season with Sony Classical’s release on September 7 of Chopin: Ballades & Nocturnes, his first recording of the composer’s music in more than a decade....

As summer ebbs we say farewell to another Rosendal Chamber Music Festival which, now in its third year, attracted artists and audiences from further and further afield, all of whom have taken home a little bit of Rosendal in their hearts. The packed four day event...

Chopin: Ballades & Nocturnes: On his first recording of the composer’s music in more than a decade,  Andsnes intersperses the Romantic master composer’s four Ballades – works immense in the range and power of their expression – with three of his nocturnes. Now...

Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc André Hamelin's recording of Stravinsky on Hyperion has been shortlisted for a Gramophone Award.  The nomination in the Instrumental category is in competition with Murrah Perahia, Nelson Freire, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Alexander Melnikov and...

Its exactly one week until the start of the third Rosendal Festival which Leif Ove Andsnes founded in the idyllic setting alongside a fjord on the west coast of Norway Joining Leif Ove on stage will be Matthias Goerne (baritone), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Kirill...

Germany's influential jury of the Preis der Deutschen Schallpletten Kritik has singled out Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's Stravinsky album as one of the best recordings in its quartely appraisal of new releases, short-listing it for the annual coveted...

Agence France Presse interviews Leif Ove Andsnes in New York "When he sat down to his longtime goal of recording Chopin's famously demanding Ballades, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes knew he had to choose the right space. "The Norwegian virtuoso, who has spent the past...

Reviewing the final concert of Leif Ove Andsnes' residency with the New York Philharmonic, the New York Times wrote: "The pianists Daniil Trifonov, 27, and Leif Ove Andsnes, 48, are at very different places in their careers. But as both have had major presences in New...

“I DONT WANT to become bigger than this,” says Steinway Artist Leif Ove Andsnes, indicating the space around him, making a series of tight, vigorous circles with his hand as if to summon a small tornado. The gesture is apropos, given the contained, intense tornado of...

"The New York Philharmonic’s concerts this week, conducted by Edward Gardner in his debut with the orchestra, project a delightful strain of perversity. Alongside a favorite of Mr. Gardner’s (Sibelius’s “Pohjola’s Daughter”), it juxtaposes a concerto-like work that...

This season Leif Ove has been focusing on repertoire less often played, championing them wherever possible around the world.  These works include Rachmanionv's Fourth Piano Concerto, Britten's Piano Concerto and, most recently Debussy's Fantasie for Piano and...

Earlier this month the Stavanager Aftenblad dedicated their front page to Leif Ove Andsnes' return to the west coast Norwegian city and the feature, previously avaiable only on subscription, can now be read for free on the newspaper's website. It is a wonderful...

Debussy’s Fantaisie (April 26 & 28) and Solo Recital at David Geffen Hall (May 2) Mark Final Appearances as New York Philharmonic’s 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence  This spring, celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes completes his season-long tenure...

The Jiri Hlinka PIano Academy has announced the next Bergen masterclasses to take place from 3 - 7 June. Joining Leif Ove Andsnes are pianists Marianna Shirinyan and Håvard Gimse. This Spring's masterclasses and concerts will be held in collaboartion with the Bergen...

Last fall, 20 years after making his New York Philharmonic debut, Leif Ove Andsnes launched his tenure as the orchestra’s 2017-18 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence. This past weekend, the pianist returned to New York for their second collaboration of the...

BBC Radio 3 has named Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc André Hamelin's new recording of Stravinsky "Disc of the Week". Here's a round up of highlights to date: You are listening to BBC Radio 3’s Record Review where a pair of pianos are about to get a sacrificial pounding on...

Gramophone Magazine has singled out Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's new recording of Stravinsky on the Hyperion label as CD of the Month. "In August 2015 I assessed a clutch of new recordings of the four-hands version of The Rite of Spring and noted that Guy...

Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 9 - 12 August 2018 “In the shadow of war (1914-1918)” From 9 – 12 August 2018 the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, founded by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on the west coast of Norway, will take place for the third time with a focus on music...

"Who knew? Sibelius, composer of seven visionary symphonies, wrote a sizable body of piano pieces that remain mostly neglected. The adventurous Mr. Andsnes discovers them on this exquisitely played album of beguiling, lyrical and quirky works. Even those with tame...

Leif Ove Andsnes ended his European recital tour in Munich on Sunday night, the last of 14 concerts which has taken him from Spain to Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Belgium.   Following are a selection of the latest review...

On February 2, Leif Ove Andsnes – the celebrated Norwegian pianist whose discography has already been recognized with six Gramophone Awards and BBC Music’s “Recording of the Year” – looks forward to the release of Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Other Works for...

Classicalsource.com reviews the Sibelius album: "Cultured and committed, knowing what to showcase and when to prune, careful to weight, balance and colour, pursuing beauty and tone, mindful of chamber pointing and quasi orchestral texturing, Leif Ove Andsnes has come...

It is 30 years since Leif Ove Andsnes made his debut in Oslo as a 17 year old pianist.  He visited NRK's leading talk show, Lindmo, this weekend to talk about life at home and on the road and performed from his new album of Sibelius piano works Click here to watch the...

Gramophone Magazine has just announced its Editor's Choices for the November issue featuring Leif Ove Andsnes' new Sibelius album. Reviewing the album, Stephen Plaistow writes "It was the late Charles Rosen who insisted that the only way music becomes established as...

Leif Ove Andsnes has just returned from London following the first leg of his autumn recital tour which began in Spain and has received astonishing reviews: "Since most things of depth, quality and true beauty have begun to disappear from the world to be replaced by...

Leif Ove Andsnes' recital tour brings him to London on 31st October for a performance at the Royal Festival Hall.  Audiences can join Leif Ove live in a pre-concert talk at 18.15 in which he discusses the evening's programme Source: South Bank Centre

From October 23 to December 3, Leif Ove Andsnes will take a new recital programme on tour across Europe with performances in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, UK Germany, Holland, Italy and Belgium. The programme opens with five pieces by Sibelius which also feature in...

The New York Times reviews Leif Ove's first concert with the New York Philharmonic in his Artists' Residence series " ... The superb pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who has played and recorded the Rachmaninoff concertos to acclaim, has made a special cause of this curious...

Bachtrack.com interviews Leif Ove about his new Sibelius album and his upcoming recital tour: Andsnes will be playing some of these Sibelius pieces in his upcoming recital at the Royal Festival Hall and around Europe, in a programme that also includes Beethoven,...

Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes a welcome return to New York next week, when he launches his season-long tenure as Artist-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic with accounts of Rachmaninoff’s rarely-programmed Fourth Concerto under Paavo...

Leif Ove Andsnes' new Sibelius album has reached No. 2 in the French classical charts and received glowing reviews from around the world in just the one month since its release.  Here are a few sample highlights: "like crystals of ice in the sunlight … Andsnes...

Highlights from the first reviews for Leif Ove Andsnes' new Sibelius album: “How could such beauties have escaped us? What didn’t we know about Sibelius's piano works ... Negligible compared to his orchestral corpus, really? No doubt we had not met the magician who...

Having developed a close musical partnership with the New York Philharmonic through two decades of collaboration, Leif Ove Andsnes has now been chosen as the orchestra’s 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence. Marking his only New York City appearances of the new season, the...

Following the second Rosendal Festival, which was dedicated to an exploration of Mozart's chamber music, the reviews are unanimous in their praise.  “Mozart in paradise" was the headline in Spain's El Pais newspaper which went on to comment "Leif Ove Andsnes and a...

As Founding Director of Norway’s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, this summer Leif Ove Andsnes looks forward to building on the success of its inaugural season, which sold out within just a few days of its announcement and received glowing reviews from both the...

I am happy to announce that my new album is now available for pre-order.  I was astonished that there could be a major composer out there with such beautiful, accessible music that people don’t know. These are intriguing works with the wonderful Sibelius qualities we...

Leif Ove Andsnes will follow his string of award-winning Beethoven concerto recordings for Sony Classical with an album of solo piano works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Sibelius wrote over 150 works for piano, but the composer’s works for the instrument have...

Due to popular demand, the application deadline for the Jiri Hlinka Academy Autumn Masterclasses has been extended to Friday 21 July to allow more time for students to apply during the summer vacation period. The masterclasses take place from 3 - 10 September in...

Leif Ove Andsnes was announced today as a new Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bergen together with seven other leaders in their fields -  Docent Jostein Fet, Professor Han Dayuan, Professor Edvard Moser, Professor May-Britt Moser, designer Peter Opsvik,...

Following rave reviews in Europe, Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin continued their mammoth duo recital tour in the States performing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and ending in Washington on Monday night. This morning's Washington Post opened...

The NHK Symphony Orchestra - Japan's most famous professional orchestra - announced that Leif Ove Andsnes has been voted the Most Memorable Soloist of 2016 alongside Russian pianist Dennis Matsuev. The voting comes from the audience who particularly appreciated Leif...

The Financial Times reviews Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's duo recital in London "Some artists achieve greatness by big competition wins, massive press campaigns, drop-dead good looks or a penchant for branding their name on everything from sneakers to...

The Guardian reviews Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin's duo recital in London "A two-piano recital is a peculiar thing. It’s chamber music, but who’s playing what? On a small stage such as the Wigmore’s, with the two instruments slotted together like...

As winter comes to a close and there is the expectation of Spring in the air,  Leif Ove Andsnes is joining forces with Marc André Hamelin for a tour programme fittingly featuring Stravinsky's piano arrangement of The Rite of Spring and Concerto for Two Pianos as well...

Tonight Leif Ove Andsnes and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra embark on a tour celebrating the orchestra's 40th birthday with performances in Geneva, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lucerne, Basel, Amiens, London and Leeds. To launch the tour Leif Ove and the orchestra performed...

The Irish Times interviews Marc-Anré Hamelin in advance of his duo recital with Leif Ove in Dublin on 1 April "It’s rare for two leading pianists to team up to play music for four hands, either in duets on one piano, or as a duo on separate instruments. The percussive...

Applications are now open for the Professor Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy Spring Masterclasses which take place in Bergen from 22 - 26 May, culminatig in student concerts at both Barony Rosendal (24 May) and the Bergen Festival (26 May). Joining Leif Ove Andsnes are guest...

Applications are now open for the Professor Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy Spring Masterclasses which take place in Bergen from 22 - 26 May, culminatig in student concerts at both Barony Rosendal (24 May) and the Bergen Festival (26 May). Joining Leif Ove Andsnes are guest...

Leif Ove Andsnes and Matthias Goerne have just returned from a mega journey with Schubert.  Performing "Die Schöne Müllerin" "Winterreise" and "Schwanengesang" in residencies in Brussels and Paris the reviews say it all: Bachtrack.com: "… Would this be the most...

The New York Philharmonic has named pianist Leif Ove Andsnes The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence for the 2017–18 season. Mr. Andsnes’s residency will feature three concerto appearances and a recital, marking his only performances in New York City in the...

Leif Ove Andsnes is currently on tour with Matthias Goerne performing Schubert's epic song cycles in Brussels and Paris.  Reviewing their performance of Winterreise in Gstaad earlier this week Le Temps wrote:  "The great bass-baritone Matthias Goerne sang the most...

After a gap of several years Leif Ove Andsnes is returning to Mozart with a season packed with concerts and rounded off with a special tribute to the composer at this year's Rosendal Festival in August. Following a performance earlier this week in Munich of Mozart's...

"One of the joys of creating a festival programme is that it allows you to focus in depth on a particular aspect of a composer’s life and music. In 2016, for the first Rosendal Chamber Music Festival we focused on 1828 – the year of Franz Schubert’s death which was...

On the heels of accepting an Honorary Doctorate from the Juilliard School, Leif Ove Andsnes returns to New York City for Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival, where he reunites with Louis Langrée for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 (July 28–30). Summer also sees the...

In its latest issue, Gramophone Magazine asks five leading pianists to talk about some of the most important piano concertos in the repertoire.  Leif Ove Andsnes was invited to talk about Grieg and you can read his introduction on the Gramophone website "Grieg’s world...

If you missed Norwegian TV's broadcast from the Rosendal Festival, audiences in both Norway and across the world can follow it on NRK-play. The feature will be broadcast again on "Hovedscenen" on NRK 2 on Saturday 3 September at 13.55 A wonderful documentary about the...

After solo South American tour, Leif Ove collaborates with Marc-Andre Hamelin, Matthia Goerne, Berlin & Vienna Phiolharminics, and Boston Symphony: By way of an upbeat to the 2016-17 season, this month Leif Ove Andsnes embarks on his first solo tour of South...

theartsdesk at the Rosendal Festival: Schubert above a fjord: A half-Norwegian voyage around 1828 from Leif Ove Andsnes and friends "More than just a great and serious pianist, Leif Ove Andsnes is a Mensch. His special gift in recent years has been to bring young...

Leif Ove Andsnes is currently in South America making his debut solo tour with performances in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina bringing audiences the same “thoughtfully varied recital program” (New York Times) of Sibelius, Beethoven, Debussy, and Chopin that drew raves...

Austria's Klassik Radio reports from the Rosendal Festival "Since the start of his successful career Leif Ove Andsnes has been a passionate chamber music performer. And this passion he shows yet again in a wonderful new festival which he just launched. "Central to the...

"It was not just the festival premiere on Thursday, it was also the premiere of a brand new concert hall on the Baroniet estate" writes Bergens Tidende. "High sky over Rosendal- and a great opening of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival." Source: Bergens Tidende

Dagbladet reviews The Rosendal Festival The intensely beautiful landscape of the stately Rosendal Barony was filled with music. And not just any music, but with chamber music of the highest level. It sounds like a fantasy, or a pipe dream. But now its really there....

Bayerische Rundfunk reports from the Rosendal Festival and interviews Leif Ove Andsnes The Norwegian Fjords are wildly romantic. Surrounded by sea and mountains, it is here in Rosendal that pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has founded a new chamber music festival. Central to...

Vårt Land reports on the first Rosendal Festival and its new acoustics "The beautiful village by the Hardanger Fjord has its roots in the Barony which dates from 1665. Leif Ove Andsnes has created a music programme which fits the setting - and literally created a new...

"With its remote location, splendid surroundings, quality-conscious programming and team of musicians … The Rosendal Chamber Music Festival has all it takes to become a new powerhouse in the the Norwegian chamber music world” writes Aftenposten. "In his first year in...

"They are two of the young Norwegian string players that have been selected to perform at the first chamber music festival at the Barony in Rosendal" comments Vårt Land.  Frida Fredrikke Waaler Wærvågen (cello) and Guro Kleven Hagen (violin) have been invited to...

"The Rosendal Chamber Music Festival had a perfect debut on Thursday night with a full house, wonderful musicians and a magical moon over the farmstead" writes Rosendal's local newspaper Grenda.  

With just one week to go before the opening of the first Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, the previous occupants of the new concert hall are now happily roaming in the adjacent fields.  On Leif Ove’s visit last November, they were still very much at home in the old...

Following a sell out screening of Concerto - A Beethoven Journey in New York which Leif Ove Andsnes attended, cinema lovers in Toronto can see the film at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema tonight where director Phil Grabsky will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A...

There are just three weeks to go before the Rosendal Festival begins and preparations are in full flow.  The new concert hall - converted from an old barn - is nearly complete and the famous rose garden is in full bloom. The festival - which sold out in just a few...

Due to a back injury Leif Ove Andsnes has had to cancel his Piano Recitals at the Anvil Basingstoke (9 June) and London Barbican (10 June) A new date has been found on Monday 19 September for Leif Ove to give the same recital progrmame at the Barbican and he hopes to...

In a ceremony that was streamed live on the internet, Leif Ove Andsnes received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from the prestigious Juilliard School in New York at the school’s commencement on 20th May 2016. In the citation, Leif Ove was commended on his...

In 2010 Leif Ove Andsnes teamed up with Christian Tetzlaff, Tabea Zimmermann and Clemens Hagen for a one-off performance at the Salzburg Festival which included Brahms' 1st Piano Quartet. "It was one of the most rewarding chamber music experiences I have ever...

“I first performed in the LSO Artist Profile Series in 2001 and it is an honour to be invited back. Not only do I look forward to playing again with the London Symphony Orchestra under both Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas but I am also very glad to have the...

Leif Ove Andsnes has been chosen as one of five remarkable artists to receive honorary doctorates from the Juilliard School this year. The doctorates will be conferred at the conservatory’s 111th Commencement Exercises on Friday, May 20, when the Norwegian pianist...

 "Sometimes troubling events cause an artist to withdraw from a performance at the last minute" wrote The New York Times. "But last week the superb violinist Christian Tetzlaff pulled out of an important concert at Carnegie Hall for a “very happy reason,” as the...

"For my upcoming performances in the United States, I am most grateful to violinist James Ehnes for stepping in at short notice to replace Christian Tetzlaff in our all-Brahms programs. Thankfully, it is for a very happy reason: Christian and his wife are expecting a...

Last summer saw the triumphant conclusion of “The Beethoven Journey,” Leif Ove Andsnes’s monumental four-season focus on the master composer’s music for piano and orchestra. Now, April 8 brings the first U.S. release of Concerto – A Beethoven Journey, a new...

On 7 & 8 March Londoners get a rare opportunity to surround themselves in an all Norwegian programme when Leif Ove Andsnes plays three concerts at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, alongside the exhibited art work of Nikolai Astrup. “My introduction to the Dulwich...

Just 2 months after announcing the first Rosendal Festival, we are delighted to announce that the festival is close to being completely sold out - with just a few remaiing tickets available for the final concert on 14th August. Source: Rosendal Festival

When Leif Ove Andsnes toured North America with a richly varied recital program in November, the Washington Post pronounced him “one of the finest musicians working today.” Now the celebrated Norwegian pianist returns to the States to play Schumann’s Piano Concerto –...

Rosendal: After a one and a half hour journey from Bergen airport the “Hardangerfjord Express Boat” sails into harbour – a small village set in a green valley below the dramatic mountains that rise steeply behind it. Here in 1661 Ludwig Rosenkrantz and his young wife...

"HERE it is: the annually anticipated choices from the classical music critics of The New York Times of the best recordings of 2014 ... ‘THE BEETHOVEN JOURNEY’: FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS, ‘CHORAL’ FANTASY Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist and conductor; Mahler Chamber Orchestra...

The Beethoven Journey has been singled out by both The New York Times and The Guardian as one of the best performances of the year in the States and the UK: The New York Times wrote: "Leif Ove Andsnes In a recent article, I questioned the wisdom of conductors...

Rosendal: After a one and a half hour journey from Bergen airport the “Hardangerfjord Express Boat” sails into harbour – a small village set in a green valley below the dramatic mountains that rise steeply behind it. Here in 1661 Ludwig Rosenkrantz and his young wife...

Vancouver's Georgia Straight interviews Leif Ove in advance of his recital this weekend "When the Georgia Straight reaches pianist Leif Ove Andsnes at his home in Bergen, Norway, he’s taking a respite from packing his bags for the North American tour that will bring...

Japan's leading music magazine - Record Geitjutsu - features Leif Ove on the cover as Artist of the Month 昨日発売の「レコード芸術」誌12月号で、レイフ・オヴェ・アンスネスが表紙＆巻頭5ページのカラーインタビューを飾っています。...

Currently touring the States, Leif Ove Andsnes' recent recitals in Washington and New York have received rave reviews: New York Times: "Putting together a thoughtfully varied recital program can be as difficult as playing your chosen pieces beautifully. The Norwegian...

Following the huge success in both cinema and TV broadcast, "Concerto - A Beethoven Journey" is now available to purchase in the UK For other markets watch this space! Source: Amazon.co.uk

Leif Ove Andsnes Tours Carnegie, Kennedy Center, and Other North American Venues with Solo Recital Program of Sibelius, Chopin, Debussy & Beethoven (Nov 14–22) Marking a change of pace for the Norwegian pianist, whose past four seasons were dedicated almost...

Leif Ove returns to the stage this autumn with a solo program featuring works by Sibelius, Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven.  The recital tour takes Andnses across Europe and the States including performances in Helsinki, Rome, Dublin, Copenhagen, Vienna, Turin,...

For those in the UK who missed "Concerto - A Beethoven Journey" in cinema, you can watch the film on BBC Four when it will be broadcast on 23 October at 19.30 GMT. Watch this space for news on further cinema screenings and TV broadcasts around the world.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, better known as "Harmonien" at home in Norway, is among the world's oldest symphony orchestras, and this year celebrates its 250-year anniversary.  Leif Ove Andsnes joined the orchestra on stage for the gala concert this week and...

Following the initial success of "Concerto - A Beethoven Journey", Seventh Art has announced that further screenings will take place in select curzon cinemas across the UK which will be accompanied by a personal introduction by film maker Phil Grabsky: 27th September...

In advance of Concerto - A Beethoven Journey, which hits cinemas across Britain on Monday September 7, Classic FM went to Bergen to meet with Leif Ove and preview the film

"One of the highlights of the BBC Proms so far has been Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra" writes Gramophone Magazine, "and if you’re suffering withdrawal symptoms from music-making of such freshness and imagination,...

"Andsnes and the MCO’s fresh and sensitive performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos have been an early Proms highlight. But is there such a thing as ‘authentic’ Beethoven?" Read Tom Service's thoughts on his Guardian blog Source: The Guardian

"After 55 cities, 22 countries, four years and three CDs, there was perhaps only one place for Leif Ove Andsnes's "Beethoven Journey" with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to come to an end: with the Emperor Concerto in front of 6,000 people in the Albert Hall …"...

With the very last performance of The Beethoven Journey just a few hours from now, the musicians are getting in gear for what will be an emotional farewell. Meanwhile the UK critics have been paying tribute to the final residency in the four year project ... "The full...

BBC news meets Leif Ove in rehearsal in London as he prepares for the final prom "For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, his appearance at the BBC Proms on Sunday will mark the end of a "musical pilgrimage" which has seen him perform Beethoven exclusively for the...

Listen in to BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" today at 17.30 GMT to hear Leif Ove live on air in advance of his first Prom concert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Meanwhile all three proms concerts will be broadcast live on Radio 3 and streamed on the internet. No matter...

The Arts Desk interviews Leif Ove in advance of the London Proms "Though perhaps not quite the "long strange trip" once hymned by the Grateful Dead, Leif Ove Andsnes's Beethoven Journey has been a marathon undertaking. It has spanned four years, during which the...

Close to 3000 tickets were sold in Bodø - in the far North of Norway - for Leif Ove and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Residence there this week, the penultimate leg of their journey. The sold out concerts took place in the brand new Stormen concert hall and was...

This month sees the end to Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's four year long journey with Beethoven as it comes to conclusion in style with a residency in Bodø - in the very North of Norway -  which is immediately followed by a three concert residency...

Theartsdesk.com reports from the Bergen Festival: "If this were only the kind of international festival you might get elsewhere – and it’s still a big “only” where Bergen’s flagship fortnight of theatre, dance, art and music is concerned – your correspondent would...

As the highly successful Asian tour came to an end this weekend, the UK press announced the start of ticket sales to this year's Proms including interview features with Leif Ove on BBC Radio 3's Music Matters  and in The Daily Telegraph: "The formidable Norwegian...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are back on the road together taking the Beethoven Journey to Asia. With a packed tour which has so far included performances in Hong Kong, Tapei, Kaohsiung and a residency in Shanghai, the musicians perform tonight in...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are back on the road together taking the Beethoven Journey to Asia. With a packed tour which has so far included performances in Hong Kong, Tapei, Kaohsiung and a residency in Shanghai, the musicians perform tonight in...

For the grand finale of The Beethoven Journey, Leif Ove will be performing all five Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra over three nights at The Royal Albert Hall as part of the 2015 BBC Proms (23, 24, 26 July). Edward Blakeman, the director of...

Leif Ove will be a special guest on BBC Radio 3's In Tune on 23 April live from London to announce a special engagement which will also be the grand finale to the Beethoven Journey. Tune In and learn more ....

The UK's Gramophone Magazine has chosen Volume 3 of The Beethoven Joureny amongst its top 10 recent recordings of Beethoven commenting 'The unanimity in the closing bars between Andsnes and his orchestra says it all. Having used up my stash of superlatives, all I can...

Last night's BBC Music Magazine Awards was a night to remember. First and foremost for the fact that Leif Ove and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra won both the "Concerto Award" and "Recording of the Year" for Volume 2 of the Beethoven Journey on Sony Classical. But the...

Leif Ove's recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra wins BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year! Voted for by the public and BBC Music Magazine’s expert jury of critics, Andsnes’s disc represents the very best of...

Practice, Practice, Practice! - How do you get to the iconic Carnegie Hall in New York? Find out here in this episode of Sarah's Music! Watch the episode Here Source

If you haven't already voted for Leif Ove's nomination in the category of Best Concerto Recording for the BBC Music Magazine Awards, you have just two days left to do so. Voting closes on 28 February and the awards take place in London on 7 April. Click here to...

Now Available: exclusive iTunes Deluxe edition of The Beethoven Journey with two new bonus tracks. In addition to the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, this new edition contains two Bagatelles (Op. 119 No. 8, and Op. 33...

Next week, Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee Leif Ove Andsnes returns to the U.S. to crown the final leg of “The Beethoven Journey,” his epic four-year focus on the master composer’s works for piano and orchestra, with three live performances featuring the Mahler...

Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes Play Beethoven. This Carnegie Hall program offers a unique snapshot of the inner concertos, from the youthful and exhuberant No. 2 to the transitional No. 3 to the forward-looking No. 4. Jeff Spurgeon co-hosts this...

Check out RTL's podcast interview with Leif Ove in advance of his Paris Residency with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra next week Leif Ove Andsnes, a plus de 30 albums à son actif, et remplit toutes les salles de concert où il joue. À 45 ans, il a tout du gentleman : le...

Watch Euronews' feature on Feel the Music - "Breaking the silence for students with hearing difficulties" Source: Euronews

For Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee Leif Ove Andsnes, the destination of “The Beethoven Journey” – his monumental four-year focus on the master composer’s works for piano and orchestra – is finally in sight. Perhaps his most significant achievement to date, since its...

"C'est une feuille de route qui donne le tournis: 4 ans, 27 pays, 108 villes, plus de 230 concerts! Leif Ove Andsnes n'est pas de ces pianistes qui enchaînent récitals ou concerts avec orchestre en variant le répertoire au gré de leurs envies. Comme certains chefs...

Volume 2 of the Beethoven Journey has been nominated for a BBC Music Magazine.  You can cast your vote on the BBC Music Magazine website before the deadline of 28 February. The winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony which will take place in London on 7 April....

As Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra gear up for their New York Residency the Huffington Post looks at their education project, "Feel the Music". "Even casual fans of classical music know of Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness. But could his hearing loss...

Following the five star review in last weekend's Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times picks Volume 3 as one of the top five CDs of the week. "... One of the pleasures of these splendid performances is the rapport between the soloist/conductor and his musicians. They play...

The UK's Telegraph pays tribute to the completion of the Beethoven Journey on CD giving Volume 3 five out of five stars: "This is the final stop in Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven Journey. Nowadays Andsnes prefers to concentrate on specific projects rather than trailing...

For the past four years award-winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky has journeyed with Leif Ove Andsnes, as he and the highly acclaimed Mahler Chamber Orchestra undertook to play and record the five Beethoven piano concerti in top venues around the world. The film captures...

"HERE it is: the annually anticipated choices from the classical music critics of The New York Times of the best recordings of 2014 ... ‘THE BEETHOVEN JOURNEY’: FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS, ‘CHORAL’ FANTASY Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist and conductor; Mahler Chamber Orchestra...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have just completed a three concert residency at Vienna's famous Musikverein and their performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 3 and Choral Fantasy will be broadcast on Austrian radio's Ö1 on 9 December.  The...

On 10 January Danish TV and Radio will broadcast the P2 Prize live from Copenhagen -  the annual classical awards for which Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are nominated in the category of "International CD of the Year".  Leif Ove will travel down to...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have just returned home after performing residencies in Bonn, Hamburg, Lucerne, Vienna and Brusssels. Here are highlights of some of the reviews:   BRUSSELS … An evening full of musical champagne because this...

Its that time of year when critics make their lists of CDs of the Year Gramophone's Harriet Smith chose Volume 2 of The Beethoven Journey commenting: "Beethoven proved king this year; I was much taken with Trio Zimmermann’s supberly reactive readings of his Op 3 and...

Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have just completed a three concert residency at Vienna's famous Musikverein and their performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 3 and Choral Fantasy will be broadcast on Austrian radio's Ö1 on 9 December.  The...

On 16 December tickets will go on sale in Japan for Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven residency at Tokyo's Opera City Hall on 15 May and 17 May 2015. With an additional performance at the Shizuoka Convention and Arts Center on 14 May, Leif...

Watch Swiss TV News' report on Feel the Music from the Lucerne Piano Festival Source: SRF Tagesschau

In advance of Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven Residency in the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburger Nachrichten takes stock of the Beethoven Journey as it comes to a conclusion: "What a project! For three and a half years, Leif Ove Andsnes...

The New York Times reviews the last volume of the Beethoven Journey: "With this new recording, the superb Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes completes his “Beethoven Journey,” a multiyear project capped by his recordings of the five Beethoven concertos with the Mahler...

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 helped to...

"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 mature enough to take...

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 constantly...

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 of virtuosity...

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 music to young people with hearing...

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

Hamburg, Bonn, Lucerne, Vienna, Paris, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, London … and Bodø.  Today the Nordland Music Festival (Musikkfestuka) in the north of Norway announced that Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will give a residency of 3 concerts...

This weekend (18 October) Leif Ove will be a guest on Norway's Saturday night TV show "Lindmo". Watch live or check in online. Source: NRK: Lindmo

After launching his 2014-15 season with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas (Sep 10–13), the pianist returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall, where he and Gustavo Dudamel bring their three-season Beethoven cycle to a climactic...

The world's leading music magazine, Gramophone, has chosen Volume 3 of the Beethoven Journey as an Editor's Choice in the current Awards issue commenting: "Journey’s end – but what a journey! Andsnes and the Mahler CO here bring to a close this wonderfully engaging...

Is this the "End of the Road" asks Norway's Dagbladet in its review of Volume 3 of the Beethoven Journey. "Now is the final stage in the great journey through Beethoven's Piano Concerts. Do we see any strands that stand out?" Yes is the answer with this top rating...

Norwegian TV national news visited Leif Ove at home in Bergen to talk Beethoven as Volume 3 is released.  Check out the interview which starts at 24'20 Source: NRK TV

Today marks the official release date of Volume 3, the last recording in Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven Journey.  Already singled out by the German press as a bench mark recording, this final release features Concerto no. 5 "The Emperor"...

After launching his 2014-15 season with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas (Sep 10–13), the pianist returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall, where he and Gustavo Dudamel bring their three-season Beethoven cycle to a climactic...

On 10 January Danish TV and Radio will broadcast the P2 Prize live from Copenhagen -  the annual classical awards for which Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are nominated in the category of "International CD of the Year".  Leif Ove will travel down to...

UK'S Classic FM is featuring Leif Ove Andsnes as Artist of the Week. "Born in Norway in 1970, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has enjoyed a career spanning 20 years, performing at all the major concert halls with the world's leading orchestras." Read Classic FM's "10 facts...

"At many points the (Emperor) concerto exudes an energy that goes beyond the purely musical. Its expressiveness has a human, perhaps also a period dimenion, composed as the work was in the years between 1809 and 1810 when Beethoven's adopted hometown of Vienna was...

On 16 December tickets will go on sale in Japan for Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Beethoven residency at Tokyo's Opera City Hall on 15 May and 17 May 2015. With an additional performance at the Shizuoka Convention and Arts Center on 14 May, Leif...

The Hamburger Abendblatt previews Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra's Residency in Hamburg which opens on 24 September at the Laeiszhalle: "The search for new ways, the constant struggle for one's own will and the struggle for a decent life: All these...

Two weeks ahead of release, the German newspaper Der Rheinische Post reviews Volume 3 ... setting the standards right at the top of the game: "His Beethoven is revolutionary … Its phenomenal … You hear details you've never heard before so bright, rough or delicate....

Since the outset of his “Beethoven Journey,” Andsnes has not only performed Beethoven with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, but also as guest soloist with many of the world’s foremost orchestras. This September he opens the new season with four performances of...

"It is a four-year journey with Ludwig van Beethoven - 144 concerts in 22 countries. Leif Ove Andsnes, who conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra  from the piano, plays all five piano concertos of the great composer, who lost his hearing so tragically.  But Beethoven's...

"It is a four-year journey with Ludwig van Beethoven - 144 concerts in 22 countries. Leif Ove Andsnes, who conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra  from the piano, plays all five piano concertos of the great composer, who lost his hearing so tragically.  But Beethoven's...

Four years in the making, the celebrated Beethoven Journey has now reached its crowning season. An intense collaborative project between Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the heart of the journey has been the recording of all five of Ludwig van...

For Leif Ove Andsnes and the Maher Chamber Orchestra, September 15 brings the release of the third and final recording of their Beethoven Journey series for Sony Classical. Completing the cycle with accounts of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto (“Emperor”) and “Choral...

“Sliding on their sock-clad feet, a gaggle of children squeeze themselves under the belly of the Steinway as the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes invites them to place their palms on the soundboard and feel the vibrations. “When Andsnes launches into a stormy...

General Anzeiger Bonn reviews the Beethoven Journey Volume II "The effect of Andsnes’ art of interpretation is through his pure approach without dramatic over-emphasis. On the CD, his style seems calm but definitely not emotionless. His brilliant technical skill...

Leif Ove Andsnes is heading home after a highly successful tour and recording sessions which ended in Prague last night.  Joining him on the journey home is the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and together they will perform Beethoven at the Bergen Festival tomorrow (Friday...

Following two sold out concerts with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes is gearing up this week to reunite with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for a European tour and recording sessions. Together they will record the Emperor Concerto and Choral Fantasy live...

As the Beethoven Journey Volume 2 continues to reap 5 star reviews from around the globe, here are a few highlights: Limelight Magazine, Australia  "There’s something so inviting about this second installment in Leif Ove Andses’ Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle, as if...

As the Beethoven Journey Volume 2 continues to reap 5 star reviews from around the globe, here are a few highlights: Limelight Magazine, Australia  "There’s something so inviting about this second installment in Leif Ove Andses’ Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle, as if...

Leif Ove Andsnes will be joining an international jury for the final round of the 14th International Edvard Grieg Piano Comptetition taking place at the Grieg Hall in Bergen on 18th October. The deadline for applications is 1st May and the competiton is open to all...

The UK's BBC Music Magazine has chosen Beethoven Volume 2 as Orchestral CD of the month in its May issue. Reviewing for the magazine Mischa Donat writes 'This second installation of Leif Ove Andsnes's 'Beethoven Journey' is no less successful than its predecessor, in...

"The superb Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes continues “The Beethoven Journey,” as he calls his thoughtful exploration of the composer’s works, with the second installment in his survey of the five piano concertos. This recording pairs the ebullient Second Concerto,...

The Arts Desk reviews Volume 2 of the Beethoven Journey "You know that this will be good after just a few seconds; Beethoven's comically strait-laced opening gesture promptly answered by a smartly shaped orchestral tutti. Well-tuned winds and horns are perky, and...

The internationally acclaimed Beethoven Fest Bonn has announced this year's programme which includes a three concert Residency by Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra opening on 25 September in the Beethovenhalle. The Bonn performances are the first of a...

Leif Ove Andsnes' major recital tour has taken him from his hometown of Haugesund in Norway to the major concert halls around Europe and the East Coast of America.  Now, as the tour approaches its final leg, Leif Ove is about to head for Japan for the final concert...

Austria's specialist classical radio - RadioStephansdom - has chosen the 2nd volume of the Beethoven Journey as its CD of the Week commenting "Leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the piano, Leif Ove Andsnes succeeds in a brilliant interpretation ... The Mahler...

This month's issue of Germany's leading music magazine Fono Forum, features Leif Ove Andsnes on the cover and Beethoven Volume 2 as CD of the Month: "Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have set out to destroy the stereotype image of the heroic Beethove...

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 Beethoven. He...

"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 Norwegian pianist...

" ... The Norwegian sits amidst several hundred spectators but he does not leave a single note, nor a single tone to stray" wrote Denmark's Berlinske newspaper of Friday night's recital in Copenhagen. "He makes himself an instrument of the music, you might say. He...

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...

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...

Today (Tuesday, March 11) marks the U.S. release of The Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, a new recording from 2013 Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee Leif Ove Andsnes, which has already been lauded as “a landmark of artistic integrity, intelligence,...

Today (Tuesday, March 11) marks the U.S. release of The Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, a new recording from 2013 Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee Leif Ove Andsnes, which has already been lauded as “a landmark of artistic integrity, intelligence,...

The Daily Telegraph gives the 2nd volume of the Beethoven Journey a 5 out of 5 star review "From time to time, the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes decides to orientate his professional life towards certain specific projects. Back in 2008 he revisited and reassessed...

Tune in to "In Tune" on Monday 3rd March at 16.30 (UK time) to hear Leif Ove talk and play live on Radio 3's flagship show in advance of his London recital. Radio 3 will also be broadcasting Leif Ove's recital live from the Barbican Centre on Tuesday at 19.30 UK time....

After a sold out performance in Berlin's Philharmonie last Sunday, Leif Ove is back on the road this weekend with his new recital programme. Audiences in Stockholm can catch him at Konserthuset on Sunday afternoon (15.00) for an all Beethoven programme which includes...

Audiences across Scandinavia can watch Leif Ove Andsnes this evening (21.00) on TV's most popular chat show - Skavlan. Leif Ove joins other guests including James Blunt, to talk about his new CD and juggling life as a musician and father.

If you missed VG's exclusive home story with Leif Ove in the Norwegian newspaper's weekend supplement you can read it online here "Snart skal han forlate dem igjen. Men etter sykehusdramaet med tvillingene som ble født tre måneder for tidlig, innser mesterpianisten...

Leif Ove Andsnes's second volume of the Beethoven Journey is now available on Sony Classical and has already earned 6 out of 6 stars from both the Dagbladet in Norway and Politiken in Denmark which commented "Interpretations are sharp, dynamic and intimate... Leif Ove...

In advance of tonight's recital in Toulouse, La Depeche interviews Leif Ove Andsnes. Un récital à ne pas manquer vendredi soir à la Halle aux Grains: le pianiste norvégien Leif Ove Andsnes joue des œuvres de Beethoven, compositeur qu’il défend actuellement en tournée...

If you haven't been able to get to one of Leif Ove Andsnes' Beethoven recitals you can listen to the Copenhagen performance which was broadcast on Danish Radio earlier this week. BBC Radio 3 will also be brocasting the London recital live on 4 March Source: DR...

" ... The Norwegian sits amidst several hundred spectators but he does not leave a single note, nor a single tone to stray" wrote Denmark's Berlinske newspaper of Friday night's recital in Copenhagen. "He makes himself an instrument of the music, you might say. He...

In 2012, multi award-winning Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes recorded the music of Beethoven for the first time in his career. In letting the world hear his thoughts on some of the most significant piano music ever written, Andsnes confirmed those qualities that...

Leif Ove Andsnes' long awaited second CD in The Beethoven Journey is released today on Sony Classical (USA release date is early March). "Some journeys are unpredictable" wrote Leif Ove Andsnes of the new album. "At the beginning of May 2013, I was all geared up to...

As Sony Classical prepares to release the second of three installments of the Beethoven Journey this month on disc, Leif Ove sets sail on a 19 city solo recital tour with an all Beethoven programme. Central to the programme is Beethoven's Appasionata sonata which is...

On Sunday 2nd February the doors opened for the very first concert in Hamar's Kirsten Flagstad-Hall in Norway. 570 people had the pleasure of hearing Leif Ove Andsnes and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra play Beethoven for which the Sparebanken Hedmark invited the...

Leif Ove Andsnes reunites with old friends this week for four performances of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Choral Fantasy in Tønsberg (30 January), Oslo (31 January), Gothenburg (1 February) and Hamar (2 February) with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. For the...

For the start of the New Year,  Leif Ove Andsnes has joined forces with the baritone Matthias Goerne for a recital tour of Mahler and Shostakovich songs - the same programme which the two artists gave to great acclaim at the 2011 Verbier and Salzburg Festivals .  The...

For the opening of a new concert hall in the Norwegian town of Hamar, the local bank - Sparebanken Hedmark - is presenting a concert with Leif Ove Andsnes and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra as a gift to the people in the lake Mjøsa-district on 2 February. The bank is...

The Irish Times meets Leif Ove Andsnes in advance of his weekend's concert in Dublin Leif Ove Andsnes’s latest project is The Beethoven Journey. The Norwegian pianist has already recorded the first and third piano concertos to great acclaim, directing the Mahler...

Leif Ove Andsnes talks to the Neumarkter Nachrichten as he joins the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on tour with The Beethoven Journey. Audiences can hear Beethoven Piano Concertos nos 2 & 4 this week in Edinburgh (Usher Hall on 20 November), London (Cadogan Hall on 21...

The bags are packed, the piano's tuned and the Beethoven Journey is back on the road. Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra reunite this month for performances across Europe and recording sessions in London. Follow the journey...

Leif Ove Andsnes talks to the Financial Times' magazine "How to Spend it" and describes his perfect weekend. “An ideal weekend for me is one spent at home in Bergen, where I’ve lived since I came here to study when I was 16. My performing schedule means I spend so...

This month Leif Ove Andsnes guests on a new album released by the Swedish label BIS. Together with Martin Fröst (clarinet) and Antoine Tamestit (viola) they perform Mozart's Kegelstatt trio which literally translates to "Skittles". The name, given to the trio...

A last minute programme switch in Los Angeles this week brought audiences the chance to hear Leif Ove Andsnes perform two Beethoven piano concertos when only one was scheduled with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. Reviewing the concert the L A Times...

The new season sees 2013 Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee Leif Ove Andsnes embark on the next leg of “The Beethoven Journey,” scaling new heights in his epic long-term focus on the master composer’s five piano concertos. Orchestral highlights include performances of...