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...For the Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes, the discovery was Dvořák’s most substantial piano work, the Poetic Tone Pictures....
...She catches the folk-inspired cut of the melodies with complete naturalness, and it is a bonus to have Norway’s leading pianist, Leif Ove Andsnes, on hand to add accompaniments of sparkling precision....
...“Master Limited Partnerships are set up to screw little investors,” says Mark Elliott, an early investor in HMLP....
...“I think there has to be an element of showing off,” says Leif Ove Andsnes modestly (he is not known to be the most show-off of pianists)....
...Ove Andsnes was the start of her short series of concerts and masterclasses....
...In his latest recording Leif Ove Andsnes is a model of sympathetic understanding — never exaggerated, or self-seeking, and keeping close to the letter of the score without seeming literal or dogmatic....
...For many years it was left to native Czech musicians to keep the piano works alive (among today’s leading pianists, Andras Schiff and Leif Ove Andsnes are rare exceptions)....
...Stravinsky Works for Two Pianos Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion) Stravinsky’s version of The Rite of Spring for piano four hands holds a special fascination for pianists....
...Leif Ove Andsnes has a much more harmonious relationship with his Steinway and a positively understated stage presence....
...Sibelius Piano music Leif Ove Andsnes (Sony Classical) It would be quite easy to attend piano recitals for years and never hear a note of Sibelius....
...Others simply by being mesmerising musicians: Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin, for instance, and it’s not surprising that this concert had been sold out for months....
...A few weeks later, one of Mr Gardell’s main targets — Leif Johansson, the chairman — stepped down without Cevian having to make much in the way of public statements....
...Such a list would contain most of the top names now aged between 30 and 50 — Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Hélène Grimaud, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Simon Trpceski and Arcadi Volodos — not to mention...
...Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will bring to the Proms the complete Beethoven piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra that he has built up over four years on tour....
...AstraZeneca’s rejection of a £55 a share bid approach from Pfizer leaves Leif Johansson in a tricky position. The UK drug company will have to beat that price to vindicate its chairman....
...Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes are made of sterner stuff. For their collaboration on Tuesday they chose a monothematic programme on the subject of death, comprising music by just two composers....
...Over a four-year period the MCO is engaged on a “Beethoven Journey” with the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes....
...… Falling Freely, As If in a Dream, by Leif Persson, translated by Paul Norlen, Doubleday, RRP£18.99 There is plenty of life in Nordic noir, as Persson reminds us....
...The Beethoven Journey Leif Ove Andsnes (Sony Classics)...
...… The Story Machine, by Tom McLaughlin, Bloomsbury, RRP£10.99 Discovering a typewriter in the attic, Elliott starts composing stories on it, only to find that he is more adept at creating pictures out...
...Next year it will be choreographer Mark Morris; this year the honour fell to the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who brought to the task an impeccable technique, acute curiosity and some extraordinary...
...Leif Ove Andsnes, who manned Kurtág’s keyboard and even made downward scales sound mysterious, returned for Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto (a vehicle for Yefim Bronfman only four months ago)....
...Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 3 and 4 Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI) Andsnes first recorded the Third Concerto 15 years ago with the Oslo Philharmonic, also on EMI....
...Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 prompted rather different ideas from Leif Ove Andsnes, the soloist, and Jurowski – Andsnes weighty and trenchant, if not very individual, while Jurowski, as always, was looking...
...Many of the same musicians have been coming here since its earliest years, when Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes lent his support to the project....
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