Her previous recordings include Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No1 and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 live with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle; Fire and Ice, an album of popular shorter works for violin and orchestra with Placido Domingo conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; the Dvorak concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, as well as several chamber music and sonata discs with artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Lars Vogt and members of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Her previous recordings include Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No1 and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 live with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Fire and Ice, an album of popular shorter works for violin and orchestra with Placido Domingo conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, the Dvorak concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, as well as several chamber music and sonata discs with artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Lars Vogt and members of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Schumann's piano concerto is an exuberant delight - seek out the 2002 recording by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes with Mariss Jansons and the Berlin Philhamonic - but his masterpiece is the Fantasia in C, a three-movement work that is highly autobiographical.
Fortunately, the negative criticism has abated quite a lot since Rachmaninov's early days, and recordings like this one from pianist Leif Ove Andsnes continue to help the composer achieve musical respectability.
Dalbavie had Leif Ove Andsnes in mind when he composed the concerto, primarily because of the 35-year-old Norwegian’s extraordinary subtlety of tonal palette.
Byline: David Mermelstein Correspondent The Los Angeles Philharmonic's concert on Thursday, the last of four programs featuring Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, proved a study in contrasts.
Other talents emerged from the west, such as the American Jefim Bronfman, the Frenchman Ian Fountain, the Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes, the Pole Piotr Paleczny, the Japanese Masako Ezaki, the Germans Lars Vogt and Andreas Boyde, and from England Murray Perahia, who leads and at the same time conducts the famous Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, and many others.
LEIF OVE ANDSNES Arguably the finest pianist of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes gives a programme which includes Schubert's D Major Piano Sonata, D850, Mussorgsky's epic Pictures At An Exhibition and Janacek's In The Mist.
