Schubert wondered how he could follow in the pianistic footsteps of Beethoven. In the end, he found a way – following that composer’s terse intensity with a world of lyrical expanse, mining emotional complexity through technical simplicity. An icon among pianists, Elisabeth Leonskaja, comes to the festival to traverse Schubert’s world from the dreamy but turbulent B major sonata to the abysmal melancholy of his penultimate work in the form and the peak of the composer’s vision of the Impromptu.

Schubert Sonata No. 9 in B major, D. 575
Schubert 4 Impromptus, D. 935
Schubert Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Tickets: £15, £22, £32, £38
(Students from £5)
Time: 19:30
Duration: 120 min
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street

£15 – £38