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Leif Ove Andsnes - Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 (2000)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Feb. 6, 2020
Leif Ove Andsnes - Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 (2000)

Leif Ove Andsnes - Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11 (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 53:37 | 201 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243556960

This disc received the 2000 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Concerto Recording." It also received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)." Franz Joseph Haydn made numerous contributions to the world of music. However, for a composer of his stature, he did not delve much into the realm of piano concertos. Of the 14 attributed to him, eight are probably the work of other composers. The three Haydn piano concertos on this album are all the more delightful for their rarity and beauty.
Mitsuko Uchida, Pierre Boulez - Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Berg: Sonata, Webern: Variations (2001)

Mitsuko Uchida, Pierre Boulez - Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Berg: Sonata, Webern: Variations (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:45 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | Catalog: 468 033-2

Mitsuko Uchida has been a committed exponent of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto for over a decade now. It is a work which remains controversial in its adaptation of the serial method to an almost Brahmsian harmonic palette, wedded to a formal approach that takes up the integrated design, and textural richness, of Schoenberg's pre-atonal works. Certainly in terms of the balance between soloist and orchestra, this recording clarifies the often capricious interplay to a degree previously unheard on disc (and most likely in the concert hall too).Interpretatively, it combines Pollini's dynamism, without the hectoring touch that creeps into the Adagio's climactic passages, and Brendel's lucidity, avoiding the deadpan feeling that pervades his final Giocoso.
Leif Ove Andsnes, Simon Rattle - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Intermezzi op. 117 (1998)

Leif Ove Andsnes, Simon Rattle - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Intermezzi op. 117 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:14 | 233 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 56583 2 6

This performance of the Piano Concerto won't be to everyone's taste. Leif Ove Andsnes, who has a decided point of view on the music, plays with his emphasis on the lyrical aspects of the music. He could obviously play the heroic outbursts of the first movement as strongly as he wants to, but he downplays them somewhat to keep them in context. You can get more excitement in other places, but only Curzon and Moravec have made this concerto such a poetic, emotional experience. Simon Rattle and the orchestra second Andsnes's viewpoint very convincingly. The Intermezzi, already elegiac in tone, are particularly affecting as Andsnes plays them; this "bonus" could easily be worth the price of the disc.
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott, Joel Hunter - Mozart Momentum - 1785 (2021)

Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott, Joel Hunter & Frank-Michael Guthmann - Mozart Momentum - 1785 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 460 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 309 Mb | 02:14:58
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

The first chapter of an exciting new recording project. The portrait of a master composer at the top of his game. Exploring two of the most remarkable, creative and game-changing years in music history: 1785 & 1786.
Pierre Boulez, Krystian Zimerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud - Béla Bartók: The Piano Concertos (2005)

Pierre Boulez, Krystian Zimerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud - Béla Bartók: The Piano Concertos (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 76:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 5330 | Recorded: 2001, 2003, 2004

Three concertos, three orchestras, three soloists, one conductor–an interesting concept, and it works. These are very fine performances by any standard. The First Concerto at first seems not to have quite as much rhythmic heft as say, Kocsis or Ashkenazy, but a glance at the score reveals Pierre Boulez and Krystian Zimerman to be exceptionally attentive to Bartók’s dynamic markings. The first fortissimo arrives five bars after figure 11, exactly as written, but it would be a mistake to typify this reading in any way as soft-edged. Bartók himself, as a pianist, was noteworthy for stressing his music’s lyricism and folk-orientation. So does Zimerman, and the combination of this quality with Boulez’s typical clarity makes for an unusually probing reading.
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart Momentum 1785: Piano Concertos Nos.20-22; Piano Quartet No.1 (2021)

Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart Momentum 1785: Piano Concertos Nos.20-22; Piano Quartet No.1 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 452 Mb | Total time: 02:15:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439742462 | Recorded: 2020

Mozart Momentum 1785 is the first of two releases on which pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra are exploring the remarkable years of 1785/86 in W.A. Mozart's life. It includes piano concertos Nos 20-22, the Piano Quartet in G minor, Masonic Funeral Music and Fantasia in C minor for solo piano.

Leif Ove Andsnes - Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos (2007)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 2, 2023
Leif Ove Andsnes - Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos (2007)

Leif Ove Andsnes - Grieg & Liszt: Piano Concertos (2007)
EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:17:24 | 279 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | Catalog: 91369

This 1990 disc featuring Grieg's Piano Concerto and Liszt's Second Piano Concerto, with six of Grieg's Lyric Pieces for solo piano, was Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes' big label debut as a soloist. It was a smash, and, as the saying goes, the rest is history. Andsnes has gone on to one of the most successful careers of any pianist of his generation. Hearing the performances in this un-remastered reissue, it's easy to understand why: Andsnes is a fire-eater of a piano player.
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart Momentum 1786 (2022)

Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Mozart Momentum 1786 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 441 Mb | Total time: 1:59:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439854512 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

After several successful years as a freelancer in Vienna it appears as if Mozart was no longer interested in pleasing Viennese society’s taste with music for pure entertainment. The composer continued down the path of personal discovery he had embarked upon the year before, and with ever more resolve: while Vienna was still “Piano Land” to Mozart, it was now on his terms. His head was primarily full of opera. Mozart’s work on Figaro led him to paint situation and emotion with new colouristic tools which would spill over into the piano concertos that followed it, each of them imbued with a more fluid sense of dialogue between soloist and orchestra. The first concerto on this recording exchanges material with Figaro’s rapid, conversational and changeable style. He expands the orchestration and “there are manic changes in the music.

Leif Ove Andsnes - Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Schumann (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 15, 2023
Leif Ove Andsnes - Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Schumann (2023)

Leif Ove Andsnes - Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Schumann (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 921 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 607 Mb | 04:24:29
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The New York Times calls Leif Ove Andsnes “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight,” and the Wall Street Journal names him “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” With his commanding technique and searching interpretations, the celebrated Norwegian pianist has won acclaim worldwide, playing concertos and recitals in the world’s leading concert halls and with its foremost orchestras, while building an esteemed and extensive discography. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, was co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades, and served as music director of California’s Ojai Music Festival in 2012. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in July 2013, and received honorary doctorates from New York’s Juilliard School and Norway’s University of Bergen in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
Marc-André Hamelin & Leif Ove Andsnes - Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Concerto & Other Works for Two Pianos (2018) [24/192]

Marc-André Hamelin & Leif Ove Andsnes - Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Concerto & Other Works for Two Pianos (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 64:54 minutes | 2,19 GB
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records, Official Digital Download

Shortly before its notorious Paris ballet premiere in 1913, this was essentially how The Rite of Spring first saw the light of day: Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin recapture the heady, visceral thrill which must have been in the air when Stravinsky sat down at the piano with Debussy to create this landmark of modernism.