THE JOURNEY - LEON FLEISHER
Pianist Leon Fleisher’s last release, 2004’s “Two Hands,” chronicled his return to full playing after losing use of his right hand for nearly 40 years to the neurological condition called focal dystonia. As with that album, the 78-year-old Fleisher continues to prove what a true master of the keyboard he is, and what audiences have been missing all these many years. As ever, he approaches each work with the utmost thoughtfulness, drawing out its individual characteristics rather than imposing his own personality upon them. The inner lines sing in Bach’s Capriccio in B-Flat Major “On the Departure of a Brother,” BWV 992; the wit of Stravinsky’s “Serenade in A” shines gleamingly; and Fleisher dispatches the melodies in Mozart’s E-flat Major Sonata, K. 282, with admirable understatement and authority. Billboard
