Works by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Beethoven und Schubert
»Like everybody, I started at playing the piano at seven; that was perfectly normal for a Soviet child and not too early at all«. Playing the piano as the most normal thing in the world. For Elisabeth Leonskaja, who has lived in Vienna for many years, this has long been the case. The stage is her home, and »the more you play, the more at home you feel«. But this is not to say that performing becomes routine. For example, she has immersed herself in Beethoven’s music from the very outset. Today, she admits that her Beethoven has »without a doubt changed«, at least in details: »I’ve remained true to myself, but with corrections.« She’ll demonstrate this in Bremen with her performance of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto – with Florian Donderer, who in the usual manner will direct his orchestra colleagues from the concertmaster position, as well as in Mendelssohn’s ›Hebrides‹ Overture and the Third Symphony composed by the young Franz Schubert.
