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Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series: Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Chopin

Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Chopin

Queen's Hall Series

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Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in recital at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival.

A programme of Chopin from celebrated pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the live Queen’s Hall recital series over the years.  Today Donald Macleod introduces the first of these, with celebrated pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja in recital from 2009.  It’s an all-Chopin programme of nocturnes, ballades and a polonaise.  Before the interval we’ll also hear Chopin’s Second Piano Sonata in B flat minor, with its funeral march third movement, originally written as an separate work.
 
Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major Op 55 No 2
Chopin: Sonata No 2 in B flat minor Op 35
Chopin: Nocturne in F minor Op 55 No 1
Chopin: Ballade in F major Op 38 No 2

INTERVAL: Beethoven: "Gassenhauer" Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 11, played by Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Wolfgang Boettcher (cello), Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) 

Chopin: Ballade No 3 in A flat major Op 47
Chopin: Nocturne in C minor Op 48 No. 1
Chopin: Nocturne in F sharp minor Op 48 No. 2
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major Op 61
Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor Op 64 No 2
Chopin Nocturne in D flat major Op 27 No 2 

Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano

Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series

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Stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh over the past decade.

Broadcasts of some of the stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall series over the past decade at the Edinburgh International Festival.

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