Alim Beisembayev, Piano
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D.395
Debussy: Images II
Chopin: 12 Études, Op.
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We are delighted to welcome pianist Alim Beisembayev, winner of
the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition and recently announced a
BBC New Generation Artist for 2023-25, for our festival finale. Schubert’s
Impromptus have a lightness of touch suitable for pieces that have clearly
been carefully conceived, but which are intended to convey an
improvisatory spirit. Debussy wrote that “I love pictures almost as much
as music” this set of three ‘Images’ allows us to visualise bells
(possibly Javanese), the setting moon, and goldfish. Alim concludes with
Chopin’s virtuosic 12 Études, of which the American pianist Garrick
Ohlsson wrote, “If you can play these…there is basically nothing in the
modern repertoire you can’t play.”
“A performance of
Greatness (with a capital ‘G’). I am not expecting to hear a finer and
more moving performance for many years … unless he (Alim) plays them
again.” Simon Holt, composer, on Chopin ‘Preludes’, Wigmore Hall
Artist
info: alimbeisembayev.co.uk
