Last night, Leif Ove Andsnes began his recital at Carnegie Hall with Grieg’s Piano Sonata (the only one he ever wrote). Did Andsnes do this because he wanted to? Or because he had to? What do I mean?

Leif Ove Andsnes’s latest album, featuring the third and fourth Piano Concertos of Sergei Rachmaninov completes Andsnes’s cycle of the Rachmaninov concertos, which he began in 2005. Known primarily as ...

After his exuberant but elegant recital of an all-Beethoven programme, one wonders why it took the pianist so long to take on the composer Until 2012, there was a Beethoven-shaped hole in Leif Ove ...

Now that pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is in his 40s, he's told himself that it's time to "grow up" and immerse himself in Beethoven. This comes at the same time that he's immersing himself in the life of ...

Elegant restraint and admirable versatility color the playing of the young Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. As he demonstrated in previous visits and again at his Friday night recital in Walt ...

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? In the glittering wake of ...

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit ...

In “Jacob’s Ladder,” which premiered at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday, Reich’s signature chugging rhythms returned. By Zachary Woolfe The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brought Dvorak’s sprawling ...

Norway’s most famous musical figure since Edvard Grieg returned to Meany Theater on Monday evening, an occasion for rejoicing among keyboard fans. When Leif Ove Andsnes is in town, music lovers know ...

Last year the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes embarked on an intensive project devoted to the five Beethoven piano concertos. The rubric he's given it - "The Beethoven Journey" - may be a little grandiose, ...

This is the final stop in Leif Ove Andsnes’s Beethoven Journey. Nowadays Andsnes prefers to concentrate on specific projects rather than trailing from venue to venue with different repertoire, and for ...