Leonard Elschenbroich & Alexei Grynyuk Presented by Liszt Academy

A recording of Beethoven’s entire cello sonata collection by Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk was released in April 2019, and the CD immediately attracted massive attention: in May, BBC Music Magazine voted it Album of the Month, while the influential publication Gramophone gave it the prestigious Editor's Choice. In the latter’s reasoning the critic, Andrew Farach-Colton, highlighted the sharpened musical characterizations, the tonal and textual variety, and the rhythmic buoyancy. He goes on: “In Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk’s hands, these sonatas’ staggering invention is impossible to ignore. The musicians’ success comes, at least in part, from scrupulous attention to the composer’s markings in matters of dynamics and articulation.” As soloists, Elschenbroich and Grynyuk are musicians who perform throughout the globe, while they have been playing chamber music together for more than ten years now. Now it is our chance to enjoy the fruits of this creative collaboration.