This was the first of a series of Schubert recitals given by the Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, and it was not the happiest of occasions.

The Sonata in A, D664, the Wanderer Fantasia and the great B Flat Sonata, D960, formed her programme, some of it performed to the intrusive squeals of mobiles and pagers. Undaunted, Leonskaja carried on regardless, though I suspect the Fantasia's final fugue has rarely sounded so angry.

Even so, Leonskaja and Schubert aren't quite an ideal combination. Vehemence, weight and brilliance were the principal strengths she brought to his music on this occasion.

Against this, however, must be set her occasional misjudging of his structural use of thematic repetition rather than genuine development in the opening movements of his sonatas. Here, she invested each repeated phrase with a different emotional meaning, sometimes sounding mannered, sometimes pulling the music out of shape.

The best of her, however, could be heard in the dark eloquence of both slow movements, and in the mercurial glamour of the Sonata in A's finale and the Sonata in B Flat's Scherzo.