Leif Ove Andsnes, 2009. Courtesy Music Information Centre Norway
Tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com, my guest, in a new conversation recorded on April 4, 2011, will be the highly gifted Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, discussing the roles of fatherhood and the passage of time in his career, with 22 of his 41 years spent as an international touring artist, and examining the ways he adds works to his performance repertoire.
Leif Ove is now between the U.S. and European stages of a 16-city solo recital tour with a program of major works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schoenberg. He is also embarking on a challenging new project to play and conduct the five Beethoven piano concertos and the Choral Fantasy with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and, in the rapidly changing recording environment, he has just ended his long and fruitful relationship with EMI and signed on as a Sony artist. I've followed his career for two decades and known him well since 1995. This discussion was a chance after an ongoing "off-mic" conversation of many years to revisit some of the basic elements of a pianist's life and his program building.
The program will then be posted Tuesday at wfmt.com/criticalthinking for free podcast, download, streaming, which is back up, running, and even, shudder, expanding.
See you on the radio!
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