Leonard Elschenbroich
Cellist Leonard Elschenbroich is one of the top German players of his instrument and has had an international career that includes both solo work and chamber music. His career also has an unusual Bolivian component.
Elschenbroich was born in Frankfurt in 1985. At age ten, he began attending the Yehudi Menuhin School in London on a scholarship, and his university-level studies took place at the Cologne Music Academy with Frans Helmerson. A Leonard Bernstein Award in 2009 put him on the concert map. The year 2012 brought multiple signs of artistic growth for Elschenbroich. He was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and he made his recording debut on the Oehms label with a performance of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33. He also embarked on a Latin American tour and, at the request of a friend, traveled to Bolivia to perform with a small orchestra under the direction of Miguel Salazar Hidalgo. He found a rehearsal room with a leaking roof but also unprecedented enthusiasm and decided to support the orchestra as best he could. Elschenbroich has held the title of artistic mentor to the orchestra, has established a relationship with another group in Medellín, Colombia, and has made concerto appearances and given recitals all over South America.
Back home in Germany, Elschenbroich has served as artist-in-resident at the Deutschlandfunk radio network and with the Philharmonic Society of Bremen. His 2013 Onyx label debut was critically lauded, and he has continued to record for that label, releasing Siècle, an album of French cello works from Saint-Saëns to Dutilleux, in 2017. Elschenbroich has performed with major orchestras across Europe, the U.S., Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and he has appeared at the BBC Proms seven times. His recital appearances include those at Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre, Concertgebouw, the Frick Collection, and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. Elschenbroich has commissioned new works from several composers, and in April 2018, he premiered the Cello Concerto of Mark Simpson with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The following year, he recorded a complete set of Beethoven's cello sonatas with pianist Alexei Grynyuk. He has received some not strictly musical publicity from his live-in relationship with violinist Nicola Benedetti, with whom he has also played in a piano trio along with Grynyuk. In 2022, he and Grynyuk released the album Brahms Analogue on Onyx, featuring works by Brahms recorded to analog tape.
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Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Leonard Elschenbroich, Lilya Zilberstein, Dmitri Kitayenko
Classique - Paru chez Oehms Classics le 25 sept. 2015
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Brahms Analogue: Cello Sonatas 1&2, Four Serious Songs
Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk
Musique de chambre - Paru chez PM Classics Ltd. le 25 nov. 2022
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas
Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk
Musique de chambre - Paru chez PM Classics Ltd. le 3 mai 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rachmaninov - Shostakovich
Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 29 avr. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tschaikowsky: Symphonie Nr. 2 - Rokoko-Variationen - Andante Cantabile
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Leonard Elschenbroich, Dmitri Kitayenko
Classique - Paru chez Oehms Classics le 5 nov. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovksy: Orchestral Works
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitri Kitayenko, Leonard Elschenbroich
Classique - Paru chez Oehms Classics le 20 août 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rachmaninov - Shostakovich (Leonard Elschenbroich)
Classique - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 29 avr. 2013
5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo