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Ingrid Andsnes CD debut<\/p>\n
Ingrid Andsnes makes her CD solo debut in the Diabelli Variations with a new cadenza written especially for her. For Ingrid this music has become synonymous with life itself, and the battles we have to go through as a part of it. Ingrid’s first meeting with this colossal set of variations came directly after a demanding period of serious illness: \u201cI think I got the Diabelli Variations ‘thrown after me’ because I needed exactly this music at that time. I needed to play music which demanded so much power, strength, stamina, deep dives into my musicality, with great technical challenges \u2013 at that very moment. I had to feel the passion, the biggest and deepest emotions, the vulnerability, and not at least the power. To recover the muscles unused, the strength, and love. You could say that my life had a perfect sound track.\u201d Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen has written a cadenza to Beethoven’s masterpiece for Ingrid \u2013 stopping time at the end of the Fuga.<\/p>\n
Ingrid Andsnes (1978 Karm\u00f8y, Norway) is a highly accomplished pianist and one of Norway\u02bcs most endearingly passionate musicians. Her love for music is just as inspiring as her joy in performing is striking. She has studied with Professor Joan Havill at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and, like her brother Leif Ove, with Professor Jiri Hlinka at Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.<\/p>\n
November 2nd 2015 Ingrid Andsnes gives a pre-release concert \u2013 in Weil Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC!<\/p>\n
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Ingrid Andsnes makes her solo CD debut with the most demanding work in the piano literature, music that has become synonymous with the struggle and transformation in her own life. November 2nd 2015 she plays the Diabelli Variations in concert once again, this time releasing her recording in Carnegie Hall, NYC.<\/p>\n
Ingrid’s first encounter with the Diabelli Variations as a performer came directly after a very challenging period of illness: \u201cI believe I had the Diabelli Variations ‘thrown at me’ because I needed exactly that music at exactly that time. I needed to play music that demanded so much power, strength, perseverance, endless dives into the music, with great technical challenges. Music that really push the envelope, beyond where you think it must end. I had to feel the passion, the great deep emotions, the vulnerability, and most important: the power. Reclaiming the control of unused muscles, strength and love. You could say that my life got the perfect soundtrack.\u201d<\/p>\n
The publisher and ‘composer’ Anton Diabelli invited the composers of 1819 Vienna to write a variation on his own little waltz. Beethoven turned the proposition down, only to reconsider and write not 1 variation, but 33! In 2015 Ingrid Andsnes invited composer and curator Lars Petter Hagen to add a cadenza to Beethoven\u2019s set of variations. Employing EBows on the string of the piano, this cadenza replacing the short Poco Adagio before variation no. 33 in the present recording. Hagen says about the project: \u2018I was very happy and at the same time terrified when Ingrid asked me to write a new variation that would be performed together with Beethoven\u2019s. It was obvious from the start that I was going to fail, and that is why I admire Ingrid\u2019s courage. To make art you really need to believe in the impossible and to expose yourself to weakness and the possibility of failure. No-one said it better than Samuel Beckett: \u201cEver tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
Ingrid Andsnes (1978 Karm\u00f8y, Norway) is a highly accomplished pianist and one of Norway’s most endearingly passionate musicians. Her love for music is just as inspiring as her joy in performing is striking. She has studied with Professor Joan Havill at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and, like her brother Leif Ove, with Professor Jiri Hlinka at Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. In collaboration with the finest of Norway’s musicians, including Solveig Kringelborn, Arve Tellefsen, H\u00e5vard Gimse and The Norwegian Soloist Choir, Ingrid Andsnes has given a remarkable contribution to concert life both nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n
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\u2013 [Ms. Andsnes] bringing clarity, rhythmic \u00e9lan and a touch of quirky playfulness to this demanding, audacious yet often humorous work. At the end of the 32nd variation, a formidable fugue, in which Beethoven\u2019s music builds to a dramatic climax and leads into a short, elusive cadenza, Ms. Andsnes instead plays a five-minute piece by the Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen: \u201cDiabelli Cadenza.\u201d It\u2019s written for piano and EBow, a hand-held resonator which prolongs sounds from the piano strings in softly eerie ways that suggest electronic music. From Mr. Hagen\u2019s haunting cadenza, Ms. Andsnes segues into Beethoven\u2019s final variation, a lilting, ingeniously ornate minuet, played beautifully. (Anthony Tommasini\/New York Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[180],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1199","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-simax-classics","7":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","8":"uni_artist_tag-erik-gard-amundsen","9":"uni_artist_tag-ingrid-andsnes","10":"uni_artist_tag-lars-petter-hagen","11":"uni_artist_tag-ludwig-van-beethoven","12":"uni_main_artist_tag-ingrid-andsnes","13":"uni_artist_genre-classical","14":"uni_artist_genre-contemporary-music","15":"uni_artist_genre-debut","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}