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11/14/2019 - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Boston, MA
11/15/2019 - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Boston, MA
11/16/2019 - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Boston, MA
11/18/2019 - Carnegie Hall / New York, USA
11/22/2019 - San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco, CA
11/23/2019 - San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco, CA
11/24/2019 - San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco, CA
12/03/2019 - La Scala / Milan, Italy
12/14/2019 - St. Petersburg Philharmonic / St. Petersburg, Russia
01/10/2020 - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Gothenburg, Sweden
01/11/2020 - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Gothenburg, Sweden
01/16/2020 - Berlin Philharmonie / Berlin, Germany
01/17/2020 - Berlin Philharmonie / Berlin, Germany
01/18/2020 - Berlin Philharmonie / Berlin, Germany
01/24/2020 - Haugesund Church Recital / Bergen, Norway
01/26/2020 - Lofoten Cathedral Recital / Bergen, Norway
02/07/2020 - Ordway Center for the Arts / St. Paul, MN
02/08/2020 - Ordway Center for the Arts / St. Paul, MN
02/09/2020 - Ordway Center for the Arts / St. Paul, MN
02/15/2020 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Elmau, Germany
02/16/2020 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Elmau, Germany
02/18/2020 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Eindhoven, Netherlands
02/19/2020 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Antwerp, Belgium
02/20/2020 - Wigmore Hall / London, United Kingdom
02/23/2020 - Sendesaal Bremen / Bremen, Germany
1 Piano Concertos #1 Cmaj, Op. 15/ Allegro con Brio  
2 Piano Concertos No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15/ Largo  
3 Piano Concertos No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15/ Rondo  
4 Piano Concertos #3 in Cm, Op. 37/ Allegro con Brio  
5 Piano Concertos No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37/ Largo  
6 Piano Concertos No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37/ Allegro  
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Over the next four seasons, the celebrated Norwegian pianist and new exclusive Sony Classical artist Leif Ove Andsnes will devote the majority of his performing and recording activities to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. At the heart of The Beethoven Journey is the pianist's commitment to perform and record Beethoven's five piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO). The Beethoven Journey began this year with a concert series at the Prague Spring Festival, with Andsnes performing and directing the orchestra from the keyboard. Now, Andsnes releases his first Beethoven recording ever.  Available on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, Piano Concertos No. 1 & 3 is the first recording in his Beethoven Journey series.

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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Mozart Momentum 1785 makes CRB's 'Instant Replay'
    Posted At : September 16, 2021 12:00 AM

    "Mellow" is the name of the game in WCRB: Boston 30th (!) edition of Instant Replay! Chill out with us when you listen to this playlist of our favorite music of the month, featuring Ben Folds, the Indigo Girls, Nanci Griffith, and more. This series highlights CRB's favorite music of the moment – discoveries we've made when we're at home cooking or cleaning, at the office, or out and about. ...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Mozart Momentum 1785 is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At : July 1, 2021 12:00 AM

    Mozart Momentum 1785 is the first of two releases on which pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra explore the remarkable years of 1785/86 in Mozart's life. In 1781, aged 25, Mozart made the bold move of going freelance. With both public and private concerts taking place on a daily basis, Vienna was the place to be for an ambitious young composer and performer, and Mozart was quick to r...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes chats with 90.9WGUC - Cincinnati about recording Mozart during the pandemic
    Posted At : June 14, 2021 12:00 AM

    WGUC's Elaine Diehl writes....Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes was born in Karmøy, Norway in 1970, and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory under the renowned Czech professor Jirí Hlinka. This Summer he releases the new project, Mozart Momentum 1785/1786 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The first of two planned Sony Classical releases features Mozart's piano concertos Nos. 20, 21 and 22 a...
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  • Countdown to 'Mozart Momentum' with Leif Ove Andsnes leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
    Posted At : May 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Kickoff is on   11 & 12 May 2019 - Frankfurt | Alte Oper Frankfurt,  followed by 5 more dates 14 May 2019 - Berlin | Berliner Philharmoniker
    16 May 2019 - Grenoble | MC2: Maison de la culture de Grenoble
    17 May 2019 - Evian | La Grange au Lac
    18 May 2019 - Paris | Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
    19 May 2019 - Lisbon | Gulbenkian M&...
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  • Quality wins as Leif Ove Andsnes links Chopin's four ballades with three of the nocturnes / Classical Source
    Posted At : January 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    Short-measure playing time, high-calibre musicianship from Leif Ove Andsnes as he links Chopin's Four Ballades with three of the Nocturnes. Quality wins. 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 be told, and Andsnes tells it like it is, with...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes connects the building blocks on new Chopin recording / Classical Music Sentinel
    Posted At : November 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    One of the many aspects I admire about Leif Ove Andsnes' playing, is that he can always extract gold from the soil without the need for a pickax and shovel. By this I mean that unlike some pianists, he doesn't fuss over details or feel the need to micromanage, or manipulate each and every note as if it holds a key to the expressive narrative of a piece. He sees the arc, the long line of a composi...
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  • Classical radio says; Leif Ove Andsnes - Chopin Ballades & Nocturnes is a must-hear recording / ClassicalMPR: Major Themes
    Posted At : October 24, 2018 12:00 AM

    Welcome to Major Themes, a monthly feature in which classical music experts recommend a must-hear recording based on what's happening at classical stations and programs around the country. This month, we checked in with friends in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and California, as well as American Public Media. Here are their top picks. There are many recordings of Chopin on the market. That said, I...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Chopin: Ballades and Nocturnes is WFMT 'Featured New Release'
    Posted At : October 15, 2018 12:00 AM

    Leif Ove Andsnes, "a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight" (New York Times), intersperses Chopin's four Ballades – works immense in the range and power of their expression – with three of his nocturnes. The new album represents the Norwegian pianist's first recording of Chopin's music in more than a decade. "There were quite a few years where I didn't play much Chopin. He felt c...
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  • Watch Leif Ove Andsnes discuss new recording 'Chopin Ballades & Nocturnes'
    Posted At : September 8, 2018 12:00 AM

    "I recorded Chopin's 3 Piano Sonatas 25 years ago and (and) very little in the mean time. But I've always loved Chopin. It's such elusive music and with such diversity of emotion and but it has just grown on me and I now feel such a need for playing more of that. It just tells me something that no other music can tell." - Leif Ove Andsnes Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes speaks about his album "Cho...
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  • Final preparations underway for the Prague Spring music festival / Radio Praha
    Posted At : May 10, 2018 12:00 AM

    Final preparations are underway for the Prague Spring music festival, which begins on Saturday evening May 12 with the traditional rendition of Smetana's My Country at the Municipal House. The festival runs through June 3rd, and as always, it will showcase a plethora of major names in classical music. But this year there will also be a special focus on the centenary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia.&n...
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  • For the Chopin Ballades, Leif Ove Andsnes knew he had to choose the right space / Borneo Bulletin
    Posted At : May 10, 2018 12:00 AM

    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 season as the artiste-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic, has developed an intuition on the relationship between settings and the great composers whose works he brings to life. "With Beethoven, fo...
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  • Trifonov and Andsnes - different generations, same curiosity / The New York Times
    Posted At : May 4, 2018 12:00 AM

    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 York this season, I've been struck by how similarly these exceptional pianists approached the coveted platforms they were handed. Mr. Trifonov, who had a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, has always been able to toss off Liszt and Chopin étu...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius is KDFC: Album Of the Week
    Posted At : December 4, 2017 12:00 AM

    Leif Ove Andsnes follows 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 long languished in the shadow of his orchestral music. His piano pieces were often seen as lacking in the rich, sonorous textures that the com...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius is KUSC: Album Of the Week
    Posted At : December 4, 2017 12:00 AM

    Leif Ove Andsnes follows 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 long languished in the shadow of his orchestral music. His piano pieces were often seen as lacking in the rich, sonor...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius is WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At : November 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    Sibelius' solo piano music – too long in the shadow of his symphonic writings – is the focus of Leif Ove Andsnes' new recording. The album gathers together some of the Finnish composer's lesser-known gems that Andsnes uncovered while going through Sibelius' entire piano output. Andsnes says, "There has been such a feeling of discovery. Everyone was astonished that there can be a major compose...
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  • Interlochen Public Radio 'Featured New Release' is Leif Ove Andsnes: Sibelius
    Posted At : November 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has released an album featuring solo piano music of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Sibelius composed fewer than 20 works for the piano, and his orchestral music is far better known. With this album, Andsnes explored all of Sibelius's piano music in search of pieces that he thought were most representative of the composer's style. According to Andsnes in the press release, "I...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes guides us through two Mozart Piano Concertos / CLASSIC fM
    Posted At : May 11, 2017 12:00 AM

    The brilliant Norwegian pianist - Leif Ove Andsnes, talked us through two Mozart Piano Concertos who changed the course of music – numbers 20 and 22. Mozart wrote both his 20th and 22nd Piano Concertos in 1785, while living in Vienna. They were two of a series of concertos he wrote in a burst of inspiration. Mozart premiered the works himself – though it sounds like there wasn't a lot of time...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes & NCO. Serious at Cadogan Hall / theguardian review
    Posted At : March 21, 2017 12:00 AM

    When they choose, though, the Norwegians can do serious too. Seated and playing from the score this time, and with Leif Ove Andsnes directing from the keyboard, two substantial Mozart piano concertos were the centrepiece of the concert. Once again, interplay and colour were to the fore. Andsnes's account of the agitated D minor concerto K466 was darkly authoritative, but it lacked the insight and fla...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes with Danish National Symphony play Schumann / Performance Today
    Posted At : November 17, 2016 12:00 AM

    Leif Ove Andsnes is famous for his clear, crystalline technique and raw piano power. On Thursday's ( Nov 17 2016 ) Performance Today, we'll hear the Norwegian pianist in concert in Copenhagen, teaming up with the Danish National Symphony to play Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto. Here's the program

    Hour 1 Franz Schubert : Allegretto in C, D. 346 Leif Ove An...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - featured on Red River Radio's concert from the Cleveland Orchestra
    Posted At : June 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    This Monday, June 27, at 1 p.m., this week's Red River Radio concert from the Cleveland Orchestra will feature - pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. The program opens with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture and closes with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Winter Dreams." Franz Welser-Möst will conduct th...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes & LSO. Nuanced and alive / theguardian
    Posted At : May 11, 2016 12:00 AM

    Sometimes, if you want a job doing you have to do it yourself. This was the first of the Artist Portrait concerts the LSO is putting on in London for pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, a repeat of the event that had opened the Brighton festival the day before. Both were to have been conducted by Daniel Harding but, with Harding ill, it fell to Andsnes himself to direct Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20. Seated at...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Concerto: A Beethoven Journey starts US theatrical release
    Posted At : March 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    Award-winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky is renowned for bringing some of the world's most important and dazzling art exhibitions onto the big screens of cinemas across the globe. Also famous for his In Search of… classical music documentaries, he has now returned his lens – and microphones – onto the world of classical music with the release of Concerto – A Beethoven Journey. "C...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes' video guide to Beethoven's Emperor Concerto / CLASSIC fm
    Posted At : November 20, 2015 12:00 AM

    Leif Ove Andsnes is one of today's greatest living pianists – and he's particularly brilliant when it comes to Beethoven. So, when we met him at his home in Bergen, we asked him to guide us through one of the composer's greatest works. In these series of videos Andsnes demonstrates the amazing opening to Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto and to explain exactly why it's so revolutionary....
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes plays Carnegie Hall / New York Times
    Posted At : November 18, 2015 12:00 AM

    Putting together a thoughtfully varied recital program can be as difficult as playing your chosen pieces beautifully. The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes demonstrated how to pull off both feats in his superb recital on Monday evening at Carnegie Hall. The phrase "solo recital" was first used by Liszt in 1840 to describe his solo concerts. Audiences and critics were baffled. How can someone "recite" wi...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count@Kennedy Center / Washington Post
    Posted At : November 16, 2015 12:00 AM

    Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes dedicated his second and final encore, Chopin's Polonaise, Op. 53, to the people of suffering Paris, and when he played it Saturday evening at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, the piano was pushed for the first time to a full-throated roar. Andsnes can make a big sound, but he doesn't very often. He prefers to work in the quiet zone, exploring nuance, detail and ...
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  • BB4: Concerto presents Leif Ove Andsnes - A Beethoven Journey
    Posted At : October 23, 2015 12:00 AM

    Filmed over the course of four years, award-winning director BB4: Concerto's Phil Grabsky follows one of the world's greatest pianists, Leif Ove Andsnes, as he attempts, in a series of sold-out worldwide performances, tointerpret one of the greatest sets of works for piano ever written - Beethoven's five piano concertos. However, Concerto is more than a portrait of a famous musician on to...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes in new Beethoven documentary / Classical-Music.com
    Posted At : August 21, 2015 12:00 AM

    A new documentary about the life and music of Beethoven is shortly to be released. Concerto: A Beethoven Journey focuses on the five piano concertos, with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes exploring the intricate detail and immense power of Beethoven's music. The film will be shown in cinemas in the UK from 7 September. Over the course of four years, director Phil Grabsky took exclusive foot...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes Prolonging the Beethoven Journey / Gramophone
    Posted At : August 20, 2015 12:00 AM

    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, and if you're suffering withdrawal symptoms from music-making of such freshness and imagination, there's a treat in store on the horizon. Phil Grabsky's film ‘Concerto: A Beethoven Journey' looks at the five piano concertos in collaboration with Andsnes and the...
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  • Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Andsnes music-making of exceptional quality / theguardian
    Posted At : July 27, 2015 12:00 AM

    Though published later than his official First Piano Concerto, Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto was written before it, while his Fifth – the so-called Emperor Concerto – turned out to be his last. In this Prom, which concluded their world tour of all of Beethoven's major works for piano and orchestra, the Norwegian pianist/director Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra th...
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  • Thanks to Leif Ove Andsnes, this summer's BBC Proms will put the piano - centre stage
    Posted At : April 23, 2015 12:00 AM

    This summer's BBC Proms will put the piano centre stage. Edward Blakeman, the director of this year's BBC Proms said the piano could well be the biggest star of the season with nearly 30 soloists and all of Beehoven's, Prokofiev's and Ravel's concertos for the instrument being performed. "It will be a great piano celebration summer," he said. The idea of staging so much work ...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes plays Celebrity Series / Boston Musical Intelligencer
    Posted At : February 24, 2015 12:00 AM

    The Celebrity Series of Boston took us away from Boston's snowy climes on a grand voyage of discovery. On Sunday, Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra brought to Jordan Hall three Beethoven piano concerti, each a world of its own, as part of a project by these musicians to present and record all of this repertoire. As ever with concerts presented under these auspices, the performers are ...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes plays Celebrity Series / Boston Globe
    Posted At : February 24, 2015 12:00 AM

    For the last three years, the excellent Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has, for instance, undertaken a "Beethoven Journey." The project's title may be bland and anodyne, but the same cannot be said for the recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos that this soloist has been making with the versatile Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The project has also involved extensive touring, and Sunday a...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes Returns to U.S.with Beethoven Journey / WQXR broadcast
    Posted At : February 23, 2015 12:00 AM

    This 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 Chamber Orchestra, his fellow traveler since the project's inception. In a two-night residency at New York's Carnegie Hall, the Norwegian pianis...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - The Complete Beethoven Journey / News & Observer review
    Posted At : November 29, 2014 12:00 AM

    Beethoven's five piano concertos are standard repertoire many pianists have recorded. Acclaimed Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes studied them before recording them all, released first on three separate discs and now as a set. They are worthy of inclusion among the classic interpretations, standing out among the many complete recordings on several key points. First is the sheer beauty and clarity of...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes: A Beethoven Journey / WFMT: New Release Of the Week
    Posted At : November 9, 2014 12:00 AM

    Four years in the making, the celebrated ‘Beethoven Journey' has now reached its crowning season. A project between pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the heart of the journey has been the recording of all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos and his Choral Fantasy. This release is the third and final album, featuring the ‘Emperor' Concerto and the Choral Fantasy, recor...
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  • Leif Ove Andsnes - The Beethoven Journey Piano Con5/Choral Fantasy / Classical.net review
    Posted At : October 24, 2014 12:00 AM

    I had nothing but praise for Leif Ove Andsnes in the first two volumes of his Beethoven Journey series. They contained Piano Concertos 1 & 3 and 2 & 4. This final volume is just as successful, capping off what must now be counted among the finest cycles of Beethoven piano concertos ever recorded. Of course, the set offers the Choral Fantasy as well, and I'll get to that in a moment. Andsn...
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