La plenitud del último Beethoven con Elisabeth Leonskaja

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 16 May 2024

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“una lectura esencial que brotaba del conocimiento profundo de una vida junto a esas obras”

Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 15 May 2024

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, Op.109

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 31 in A flat major, Op.110

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 32 in C minor, Op.111

Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano

Batons and broomsticks with Joana Mallwitz in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 22nd February

A folk-centred programme delights Berlin's Konzerthaus under the conducting of Joana Mallwitz – with the special participation of soloist Elisabeth Leonskaja.

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Leonskaja and the Staatskapelle Streichquartett at Wigmore Hall

Chris Garlick, 20th September

The contrasts in Brahms' two early piano quartets are highlighted by side by members of the Staatskapelle Streichquartett and Elisabeth Leonskaja.

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An unforgettable musical experience at the Ragged School Museum

Chris Garlick, 4th October

The final event of the Ragged School Museum Festival saw a programme of Brahms and Shostakovich in the wonderful Victorian museum, tucked away at the heart of the East End.

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Beethoven or bust: anniversary series launched at Wigmore Hall

Mark Pullinger, 15th September

Early and late Beethoven in the closing two recitals of Wigmore Hall's Beethoven Festival Weekend.

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Leonskaja's Schubert thrills the Pierre Boulez Saal

David Karlin, 22nd November

A pair of A minor sonatas demonstrate the composer's evolution over his lifetime; the Wanderer Fantasy shows the pianist's mastery of phrasing.

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Mediocre Beethoven but brilliant Shostakovich from the SCO

Simon Thompson, 1st February

The SCO’s strings play as though they had an insight into the composer’s psyche that few could share.

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.