Leif Ove Andsnes feels a special bond with Ludwig van Beethoven: “He speaks to people from heart to heart,” says the pianist. In his Piano Sonata No. 31, Beethoven moves the listener with a multitude of emotions, from meditative intimacy to exultant ecstasy. The other items on the programme are also heartfelt: Antonín Dvořák describes romantic images of nature in his Poetic Moods, Leoš Janáček the tragic death of a worker at a demonstration in the First Piano Sonata, Alexander Wustin the song of a bird during a funeral in his Lamento and Valentin Silvestrov's Bagatelle is melancholic and consoling.
Leif Ove Andsnes piano
Alexander Wustin
Lamento
Leoš Janáček
Piano Sonata “1.X.1905 (From the street)”
Valentin Silvestrov
Bagatelle, op. 1 No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, op. 110
Antonín Dvořák
Poetic Tone Pictures, op. 85