Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater was ...

Bach's Toccata in E minor, BWV 914, opened the event. Andsnes, a focused perfectionist, played with a surplus of technique and confidence, garnishing the work with a momentum-building flourish at the ...

Yet Andsnes’s sturdy, direct, immaculately even-tempered, playing united these disparate territories, and even stamped his Debussy encore with the same robust character. Fans of a more nebulous, ...

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?

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Rarely have the opening chords of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata sounded so exciting – not for any melodrama or overblown muscle, but for sheer wide-eyed, joyous adventure. Norwegian pianist Leif Ove ...

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