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Beethoven from Andsnes and Uchida contrasts physical prowess with aura of poetic ferocity

Mar 19, 2014 – 8:32 am | 8,692 views
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes (Özgür Albayrak)

Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’ physically exuberant all-Beethoven program at Orchestra Hall — an ingenious traversal from Op. 22 to Op. 101, from Beethoven at age 30 to Beethoven at 46 — followed one week after the Japanese-British pianist Mitsuko Uchida’s fiercely poetic reading of the “Diabelli” Variations. It was the second time this season that the series has offered such back-to-back interpretive contrasts of a single composer.