Aimi Kobayashi - Frédéric Chopin: Preludes; Piano Works (2021)
Aimi Kobayashi - Frédéric Chopin: Preludes; Piano Works (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 184 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190296690785 | Recorded: 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 184 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190296690785 | Recorded: 2021
The 2015 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw was so thick with talent that even as fine a Chopin interpreter as Aimi Kobayashi did not make the medal stand (she did place in the round of ten). She's an exceptional pianist who brings the power and speed of the piano stars of yore, who often plays Liszt as well as Chopin. On this release of Chopin's preludes, plus a few other Chopin hits, listen to the well-worn Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 20, where the imposing opening chords seem to pulse through the whole work. Kobayashi's passagework in the faster preludes is fleet but never muddy, and where Chopin has embedded a melody, she catches it. She tames the tendency of her Steinway to sound pounded in the upper register at high volumes, which she certainly produces. Her expressivity is often not accomplished so much through tempo rubato as through pauses, as in the absorbing treatment of the Prelude in A minor, Op. 28, No. 2. The concluding Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66, is an exceptional performance, shimmering with bits of melody and thought, and again, bringing to mind the legendary Chopin interpreters. One awaits more from this charismatic young pianist, here recorded well at the Uonuma City Koidego Cultural Center in Japan's Niigata Prefecture.–James Manheim
Performer:
Aimi Kobayashi, piano
Tracklist:
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes, Op. 28
01. No. 1 in C Major
02. No. 2 in A Minor
03. No. 3 in G Major
04 No. 4 in E Minor
05 No. 5 in D Major
06. No. 6 in B Minor
07. No. 7 in A Major
08. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
09. No. 9 in E Major
10. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
11. No. 11 in B Major
12. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
13. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major
14. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
15. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop"
16. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor
17. No. 17 in A-Flat Major
18. No. 18 in F Minor
19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major
20. No. 20 in C Minor "Funeral March"
21. No. 21 in B-Flat Major
22. No. 22 in G Minor
23. No. 23 in F Major
24. No. 24 in D Minor
25. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45
26. Prelude No. 26 in A-Flat Major, Op. Posth
27. Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-Flat Major, Op. 61
28. Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
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Aimi Kobayashi - Frédéric Chopin: Preludes; Piano Works (2021)
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