Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 958 & 960 (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Elisabeth Leonskaja - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 958 & 960 (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz] Download

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.When Leonskaja was six and a half, her parents were able to buy her her first upright piano. At 7, she passed the entrance to one of Tbilisi’s sixty music schools. At 11, she gave her orchestral debut with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C Major (Op. 15), at 13 her first solo recital. At 14, she began an intense four-year period of study at the secondary school with a new piano teacher from Kiev, influenced by the Russian school of piano. In 1964, Elisabeth Leonskaja won the Enesco International Piano Competition in Bucharest. The judges included the composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

In 1964, Leonskaja began studies in the Moscow Conservatory. During her conservatory years she won prizes in the Enescu, Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud and Queen Elizabeth international piano competitions in Bucharest, Paris and Brussels.

Leonskaja left the Soviet Union in 1978 and has since then resided in Vienna. A notable recording of hers is of Edvard Grieg’s piano transcriptions of Mozart’s piano sonatas K. 545 and K. 533/494, accompanied by Sviatoslav Richter, with whom she built a close friendship and collaboration. She recorded many years for Teldec, now for German label MD and gives many Masterclasses.

Tracklist:

1-01. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: I. Allegro (11:54)
1-02. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: II. Adagio (08:14)
1-03. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: III. Menuetto. Allegro – Trio (04:02)
1-04. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: IV. Allegro (09:37)
1-05. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960: I. Molto moderato (22:31)
1-06. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960: II. Andante sostenuto (09:36)
1-07. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza (04:38)
1-08. Elisabeth Leonskaja – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960: IV. Allegro ma non troppo (08:56)

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