LEIF OVE ANDSNES – Horizons

A Personal Collection of Piano Encores

 

1.         Jean Sibelius: Etude Op.76 No.2

2.         Alexander Scriabin: Impromptu 1 Op.14

3.         Felix Mendelssohn: Song without words Op.67 No.2

4.         Strauss/Gieseking: Ständchen

5.         Federico Mompou: El Lago (Le Lac)

6.         JS Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, BWV 639 (from Das Orgelbüchlein, Part III)

7.         Frédéric Chopin: Impromptu No.1, Op.29

8.         Franz Liszt: Liebestraum (Notturno No.3)

9.         Dmitri Shostakovich: Polka (from the ballet “L’age d’or”)

10.       Isaac Albéniz: Tango Op.165 No.2

11.       Federico Mompou: Cancion y Danza No.1

12.       Franz Liszt/Frédéric Chopin: Meine Freuden (Nocturne)

13.       Franz Liszt: Valse-Impromptu (published 1853)

14.       George Antheil: Toccata No.2 (1948)

15.       Charles Trenet: Chanson “Coin de rue” arranged by Mr Nobody

16.       Johan Halvorsen/Leif Ove Andsnes: Chant de Veslemoy

17.       Edvard Grieg: Humoresque Op.6 No.3

18.       Bedrich Smetana: At the Sea

19.       Cyril Scott: Lotusland

20.       Jacques Ibert: Le petit âne blanc (The Little Donkey)

21.       Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

22.       Edvard Grieg: Folk Song Op.73 No.4

 

“I was lucky to grow up in a country where we can enjoy silence. To get to the mountains, to hear a brook running, a bird singing, that’s really music for me”

Leif Ove Andsnes

 

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is now one of the most honoured recording stars in his country's history. He was awarded Instrumentalist of the Year at this year’s Classical Brits for his recording of Rachmaninov’s First and Second Piano Concertos.  The multiple Gramophone Award-winner is now firmly established as one of the most compelling artists on the concert stage.

 

Horizons is Leif Ove’s most revealing album to date – an intimate musical journey with one of today’s most exciting and critically acclaimed young pianists, full of dramatic and poetic moments that will inspire both new and committed Leif Ove fans alike

 

Horizons features nearly two dozen short piano works by a wide variety of composers. These works, which Andsnes often performs as encores at his recitals, carry a special importance for Andsnes: they are works he discovered at significant times in his career, tributes to teachers and other great interpreters, and pieces with strong connections to beloved places at home and abroad.

 

'Unique among the piano virtuosos of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes is a thinker, a listener, a keyboard poet'

New York Times

 

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