Elisabeth Leonskaja
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Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling
Leonskaja’s live performances of the Schumann and Grieg piano concertos have been cause for wonder...There are other ways of performing these works, but these interpretations are utterly consistent... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Concerto
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a fine demonstration of Leonskaja’s commitment to music whose fascination – and provocation – remains endless. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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No question about it, Leonskaja’s Schubert on Warner (her Schubert recordings for Teldec are completely different) should provide you with a lifetime’s worth of musical nourishment, and the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Leonskaja always treads the tightrope between prettiness and excessive emphases...Perfection? For me, it’s a yes. Can we have the Haydn and even the Beethoven sonatas complete from Leonskaja... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Recording of the Month
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Full-blooded playing from Leonskaja, with a suitably wide expressive range. Though there are moments of over-aggression, those are compensated for by her beautiful shaping of filigree arabesques... —
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Whatever the Papillons may lack in dynamic extremes and poetic audacity, one cannot deny that a seasoned artist is at the keyboard. —
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Goerne's renowned breath control … creates the hushed legato which is his hallmarl. This comes into its own in the Mayrhofer and Leitner settings, creating the mesmeric lilt of water and of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'and Quintet for Piano & Winds
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Orchestre Francais des Jeunes, Michael Schønwand
The pianist proves far more fluent, relaxed and spry in Beethoven’s Quintet for piano and winds, featuring inspired soloists culled from the orchestra...What is more, she constantly adjusts... —
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The Intermezzo, Op 116 No 4, was originally titled 'Nocturne' and Murdoch calls it 'one of the most peaceful creations in the whole literature of the pianoforte'. Not so Leonskaja, whose fractionally... —
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Liederabend - Marjana Lipovsek
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) & Thomas Riebl (viola)
