Elisabeth Brauss played in St Alkmunds Church in November 2021, a programme she repeated a few days later at the Wigmore Hall. She had recently finished her time as a BBC New Generation Artist and had just won the Terence-Judd Halle Award, which involves performing with the Halle Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder.
Elisabeth chose a programme to illustrate the development of the Sonata form, beginning with Mozart's haunting Sonata No.8 in A Minor, written soon after the sudden death of his mother while she was travelling with Wolfgang. She then played Ravel's Sonatine and finished the first half with Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No.3, also in A Minor. After the interval, she gave a ravishing account of Brahms' Four Piano Pieces Op.119 and finished with Schumann's Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna), Op. 26.
Elisabeth not only looks like an angel, but plays like one, too. She has a delicate and sensitive touch, but can easily deliver bravura and acrobatics on the keyboard when the music demands. Undoubtedly a star of the future. Her Mozart is divine. She has a generous nature and plays with all her heart. She said she would happily play her recitals for free, I suggested she didn't necessarily mention this to her agent.