Leif Ove Andsnes

Known for his excellent recordings of music by fellow Norwegian Edvard Grieg, the pianist branches out to explore the parallels and departures in the music of three Viennese masters. Two late-period Beethoven sonatas—the Waldstein and No. 32—bookend Brahms's rhapsodic Four Ballades and Schoenberg's tone-liberating Six Little Piano Pieces.