Grande dame Elisabeth Leonskaja dives into Beethoven’s gripping Third Piano Concerto during the Flagey Piano Days 2026. “She voices Beethoven’s writing with total clarity and a natural sense of phrasing.” — BBC Music Magazine

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A work filled with dramatic tension and inner struggle: Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto is classical in form, yet already infused with the fiery spirit of Romanticism rising on the horizon.

A calm sea, peaceful and glass-smooth, suddenly erupting with force — that is how Mendelssohn’s Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt opens this concert: a musical rendering of nature in all its power and beauty.

For his Third Symphony, the beloved “Rhenish,” Schumann also turned to nature for inspiration. He celebrates the beauty and vitality of the Rhine — grand, warm, and unstoppable.