Beethoven - Elisabeth Leonskaja
5021732723536 (Warner Classics, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (23 May 2025)
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Received: 3 April 2025
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Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Orchestre Français des Jeunes
Michael Schonwandt, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor'
Quintet for Piano and Winds
Elisabeth Leonskaja, who described Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 as 'the supreme piano concerto', releases a new recording with the players of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, a French national ensemble for exceptional instrumentalists aged between sixteen and twenty-five. She pairs it with Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, Op 16, featuring four outstanding soloists of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes - Arsène Brucker (bassoon), Sacha Hannecart-Ségal (clarinet), Camille Vauchez (horn) and Cécile Colinet (oboe).