Composer: Frédéric François Chopin
Performer: Aimi Kobayashi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029669078
Release: 2021
Size: 1.99 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
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 Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25)
26. Prelude No. 26 in A-Flat Major, Op. Posth
27. Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 ‘Polonaise-fantaisie’
28. Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 ‘Fantaisie-Impromptu’
“Chopin is a composer who has been with me since I started playing the piano as a child. In Japan, where I grew up, it is impossible to avoid Chopin’s music! He is one of the most popular composers for everybody, and all pianists start playing and getting to know his music from a very young age. Therefore, he becomes an essential part of your life very naturally. I have wanted to record the complete Preludes for a long time. It is always very interesting to approach works like this that are conceived as a whole – like the 24 Bach Preludes and Fugues or the Debussy Preludes. Each prelude is individual, and each is in a different tonality so the colour and characters are completely different, and as the structure of each individual prelude is relatively open there is a lot of freedom for interpretation.” – Aimi Kobayashi