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Carnegie Hall Presents

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 8 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Leif Ove Andsnes by Helge Hansen
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Carnegie Hall for his first recital since 2015. The program includes choice selections by Janáček, Beethoven, and Dvořák, whose works Andsnes has performed and recorded to significant critical and commercial success. Also featured are pieces by Valentin Silvestrov—the great Ukrainian composer, whose deceptively exacting bagatelles achieve great beauty in their brief duration—and Vustin, whom Andsnes calls “relatively unknown outside of Russia,” but with “a strong personal voice which can be almost hauntingly hypnotic.”

Performers

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Program

VUSTIN Lamento

JANÁČEK Sonata 1.X.1905, "From the Street"

VALENTIN SILVESTROV Bagatelle, Op. 1, No. 3

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique"

DVOŘÁK Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85


Encores:

SAEVERUD Ballad of Revolt, Op. 22, No. 5

CHOPIN Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission. Please note that there will be no late seating before intermission.

At a Glance

VUSTIN  Lamento

This haunting miniature illustrates the quasi-mystical sound world of the late Russian composer Alexander Vustin, whose music has been championed by the likes of conductor Vladimir Jurowski and violinist Gidon Kremer.

 

JANÁČEK  Sonata 1.X.1905, “From the Street”

Written to commemorate the death of a Czech demonstrator in 1905, this “sonata” expresses both Janáček’s grief at the loss of an innocent life and his outrage at the oppression of the Czech minority in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

 

SILVESTROV  Bagatelle, Op. 1, No. 3

Regarded as a national treasure in his native Ukraine, Valentin Silvestrov writes intimate tonal essays in a conservative harmonic idiom. The lyrical introspection of this short piece is characteristic of his understated style.

 

BEETHOVEN  Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, “Pathétique”

The “Pathétique” Sonata both dazzled and perplexed Beethoven’s contemporaries with its explosively dramatic character and concentrated economy of expression. The work’s tragic mood led his publisher to issue it under the title “Grande Sonate Pathétique.”

 

DVOŘÁK  Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85

Dvořák’s 13 miniature tone poems represent his major contribution to the Romantic genre of the character piece. Leif Ove Andsnes describes the Poetic Tone Pictures as “the great forgotten cycle of 19th-century piano music.”

 

Bios

Leif Ove Andsnes

“A pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” (The New York Times), Leif Ove Andsnes is “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation” (The Wall Street Journal). With his commanding technique and searching interpretations, the celebrated Norwegian pianist has  ...

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