Nordheim Beethoven Nordheim

Nordheim meets Beethoven Einar Steen-Nøkleberg creates a meeting of masters outside the trodden path: Arne Nordheim probes into and behind the sound of the piano - meeting ideas and processes from the last sonata of Beethoven. Sometimes a recording project grows and finds it shape all by itself. The seed was planted when Arne Nordheim in detail presented his only work for piano, drawing lines back to the work Beethoven did in his last piano sonata. Just how great this really could be was clear when the electronics of "Listen Inside-Outside" was ready in 2005, premiered by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. And then it all burst out into full bloom during the Nordheim Composer Prize Award that same year, when this live recording of Inside-Outside was made.