{"id":88674,"date":"2023-01-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=88674"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:12:22","slug":"pitman-review-andsness-poetic-tone-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/pitman-review-andsness-poetic-tone-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Leif Ove Andsnes&#8217;s &#8216;Poetic Tone Pictures&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All Classical Portland&#8217;s Program Director&nbsp;<strong>John Pitman<\/strong> has long admired the artistry of Norwegian pianist <strong>Leif Ove Andsnes<\/strong>, having featured his recordings regularly over the past 30-plus years.&nbsp;His newest release is especially exciting because it includes rare recordings of the complete <em>Poetic Tone Pictures<\/em> by Czech composer <strong>Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his latest interview with John, Mr. Andsnes shares how he came to know this music as a young boy, when his father brought home an LP from London, and how it has always intrigued him.&nbsp;Andsnes highlights charming and highly inventive moments in Dvo\u0159\u00e1k&#8217;s piano cycle.&nbsp;It is a neglected treasure that, hopefully, will now be heard more through this beautiful recording by Leif Ove Andsnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/soundcloud.com\/all-classical-portland\/john-pitman-review-leif-ove-andsness-poetic-tone-pictures\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prestomusic.com\/classical\/products\/9371324--dvo-ak-poetic-tone-pictures-op-85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase <em>Poetic Tone Pictures<\/em> at Presto Classical<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Classical Portland&#8217;s Program Director&nbsp;John Pitman has long admired the artistry of Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, having featured his recordings regularly over the past 30-plus years.&nbsp;His newest release is especially exciting because it includes rare recordings of the complete Poetic Tone Pictures by Czech composer Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k. In his latest interview with John, Mr. &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":88675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:37:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110006,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88674\/revisions\/110006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}