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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall Mondays: Elisabeth Leonskaja

Music: Classical

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Wigmore Hall Mondays: Elisabeth Leonskaja

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Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja performs music by Beethoven and Berg at Wigmore Hall, London.

Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) performs at Wigmore Hall, London. Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor. Berg: Piano Sonata, Op 1. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 (The Tempest).

The distinguished Russian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, live from Wigmore Hall, London in a programme of Beethoven and Berg.

Elisabeth Leonskaya is one of the world's most celebrated pianists, standing firmly in the Russian tradition of Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. She is an eminent interpreter of Beethoven, today performing his improvisatory Fantasia in G minor and his innovative "Tempest" Sonata, which she contrasts with Berg's first and only piano sonata, which took the form onwards into the twentieth century.

Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor, Op 77
Berg: Piano Sonata, Op 1
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D minor, Op 31 No 2 (The Tempest).

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