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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: Russian Revolutionaries

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Russian Revolutionaries: Episode 1: Elisabeth Leonskaja

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Elisabeth Leonskaja

Episode 1

Episode 1: Elisabeth Leonskaja

Russian Revolutionaries

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Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) plays Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky at LSO St Luke's, London.

Fiona Talkington presents Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) in concert at LSO St Luke's, London. Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No 2 in B minor, Op 61. Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata in G, Op 37.

Fiona Talkington presents Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja playing Russian music from before and after the Revolutions of 1917.

Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No 2 in B minor, Op 61
Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata in G major, Op 37 
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

A century ago this week, Russia was convulsed by the first of two revolutions in a single year. (It's called the February Revolution because Russia still used an old calendar at that time.) To mark the anniversary, this Russian Revolutionaries series from LSO St Luke's in London features four pianists from Russia, Georgia and the Ukraine delving into the riches of Russian piano music composed before, after and even during the momentous year of 1917 - by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Medtner, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The series begins today with Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja.

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Fiona Talkington presents Russian piano music performed at LSO St Luke's in London

Fiona Talkington presents recitals given at LSO St Luke's in London, with Russian piano repertoire before and after the momentous events in 1917 in the country

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