Schubert
Grand Due, D812

A very special opportunity to hear one of the giants of the keyboard, Elizabeth Leonskaja, on a rare visit to the UK, playing a composer very close to her heart. With Festival regular Julius Drake (whose own insights into Schubert are justly celebrated) she tackles the bold and brilliant Grand Duo, full of unforgettable melody. Leonskaja then gives us Schubert’s final piano sonata, a mysterious and ethereal work that seems poised between this world and the next