Elisabeth Leonskaja - Schubert Piano Sonatas, D. 840 & 959 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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

01. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 15 in C Major, D. 840 "Reliquie": I. Moderato
02. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 15 in C Major, D. 840 "Reliquie": II. Andante
03. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: I. Allegro
04. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino
05. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
06. Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: IV. Rondo. Allegretto



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