Elisabeth Leonskaja: Piano concert

Elisabeth Leonskaja: Piano concert

Elisabeth Leonskaja, one of the most authoritative musicians of our time, intersperses some of Mozart’s best known sonatas with scores by his 20th-century Viennese successors: Schoenberg’s aphoristic Six Little Piano Pieces and Webern’s emotionally intense Variations, his only published work for solo piano.

Elizabeth Leonskaja was born in Georgia in 1942, where her parents were evacuated from Odessa during the Second world war. She received a musical education in Moscow and began performing at the age of 11. Since 1978 lives in Vienna, performs and teaches. Among her students — Caspar Frantz, Anika Vavic, Marcus Hinterhauser. She works with major European orchestras and chamber ensembles, leading conductors in Europe and the USA.

Programme

Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330
Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19
Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat K333
Interval
Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332
Webern Variations Op. 27
Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331

Photo: Elisabeth Leonskaja