Alim Beisembayev. Credit: Nabin Maharjan

Sunday 28 July at 3:30pm (2 hr)
Tickets £32/£26 (conc £18/£16)
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Schubert ~ 4 Impromptus, D.395
Debussy ~ Images II
Chopin ~ Sonatas of Three Parts, No.1 in G minor

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

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