Elisabeth Leonskaja

Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 840 & 959 (2022)
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Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 23 November 1945) (In Russian: Елизавета Ильинична Леонская) is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 784 & 894 (2022)
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Here is the next issue of Leonskaja’s recent complete cycle of Schubert’s sonatas. Now we are heading to the high D catalog numbers, only absolute masterworks of the piano repertoire from the late and most creative period of Schubert’s composing remain! This volume includes the harrowing fourteenth and the eighteenth, the last published during Schubert’s lifetime.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonata, D. 664 & Wanderer-Fantaisie, D. 760 (2022)
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On-going Schubert’s recent cycle by Elisabeth Leonskaja. This volume includes two contrasting pieces: the light and joyful thirteenth sonata, which can still be linked to Schubert’s youth style, and the demonic “Wanderer Fantasie”, one of the most demanding and ambitious works of Schubert’s catalogue, and perhaps his first true masterpiece.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 557 & 568 (2022)
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Warner Classics continues their cycle of Schubert’s complete piano sonatas, performed by the venerable Soviet and Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja!

For decades now, Elisabeth Leonskaja has been among the most celebrated pianists of our time. In a world dominated by the media, Elisabeth Leonskaja has remained true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, who never wavered in their focus on the quintessence of music despite working in a very difficult political environment. Her almost legendary modesty still makes her somewhat media-shy today. Yet as soon as she walks out on the stage, audiences can sense the force behind the fact that music is and always has been her life’s work.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 279 & 459 (2022)
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This pair of Schubert piano sonatas, recently recorded by Elisabeth Leonskaja, were both left unfinished by the young composer. The first comes with a final movement revised by Martino Tirimo, the latter in its usual completion with the pieces from D. 459a.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 157, 537 & 566 (2022)
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Elisabeth Leonskaja (Russian: Elizaveta Ilyinichna Leonskaya; born November 23, 1945 in Tbilisi, Soviet Union) is a Russian pianist. As a soloist, she plays in the world’s first orchestras such as the New Yorke Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and works with well-known conductors. She is one of the leading pianists of her time.

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Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 575 & 625 (2022)
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Fourth volume of Schubert piano sonatas by Elisabeth Leonskaja, including the ninth and eleventh. The latter includes the Adagio, D. 505, thought to be meant as its slow movement, here unusually placed in third position.

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