Browse: Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

On their first Shostakovich disc, the playing is of the highest musical and technical quality. The quintet takes its place alongside celebrated accounts by Sviatoslav Richter and Vladimir Ashkenazy. — Sunday Times, 17th March 2019 More…

The pianist’s seemingly spontaneous rubato sends the waltz-like ‘butterflies’ spinning deliciously, while the more rugged side of her Janus-faced technique gives a special resonance to the lower... — BBC Music Magazine More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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 sound,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2022 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…