6/7/14 6/7/14

New York Times: Lending Mozart a Left Hand

The composer and pianist Timo Andres’s take on the “Coronation” (otherwise known as the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D) felt necessary — not a lark but a surprisingly moving dazzler.

3/7/14 3/7/14

Star Tribune: Composer Timo Andres Goes for the Beauty

His second record, last year’s “Home Stretch,” boldly fills in the absent left hand of Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto and also offers up a 14-minute “Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno.”

12/7/13 12/7/13

NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2013

Home Stretch is a gentle gondola ride through five lovely Eno songs ... a clever, lovingly orchestrated homage in the time-honored spirit of Franz Liszt.

9/11/13 9/11/13

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Home Stretch" Review

In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.

9/6/13 9/6/13

Pasatiempo: Home Stretch Review

The different music on composer-pianist Timo Andres’ Home Stretch — a rhythmically modern piece for piano and chamber orchestra, a reimagination of Mozart’s Coronation concerto, and a “paraphrase” of themes written by an experimental, ambient musician — is an adventure in time, in terms of tempo and stylistic history.

8/7/13 8/7/13

WNYC Soundcheck: Timo Andres: Weaving Together Eno And Mozart

On his new album, Home Stretch, Andres plays off of works by Brian Eno and Mozart, matching his reinventions of those pieces with a composition of his own. The result is a buoyant and fascinating record.