Aimi Kobayashi – Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958, 4 Impromptus, D. 935 & Rondo, D. 951 (Deluxe) (2025) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Aimi Kobayashi – Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958, 4 Impromptus, D. 935 & Rondo, D. 951 (Deluxe) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:29:22 minutes | 2,82 GB | Genre: Classical
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Aimi Kobayashi, who rose to prominence as a prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, has been praised by Gramophone as a pianist who can “rivet the attention through fine-drawn line and hushed dynamics as much as through vivid gesture and brute force”.

She now follows Warner Classics albums of Chopin and Liszt with a Schubert recital: the four Impromptus D935, the Sonata in C minor D958 and the Rondo in A major D951, a substantial piece for two players at one piano.

Joining her for the duet is Kyohei Sorita, a fellow laureate of the Chopin competition – and also her husband.“Schubert’s music has a special beauty that is unique to him,” she says. “The pieces I recorded for the album were written towards the end of his life, when he was 30 or 31 years old. I will turn 30 in 2025 … I thought it would be meaningful for me to play them at the same age that this composer of genius wrote them …Schubert’s works are lonely, but full of tenderness … It is as if the composer is conscious of death, but in the midst of it, he discovers a little happiness and expresses it in his music.”

Tracklist:

1-1. Aimi Kobayashi – 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935: No. 1 in F Minor (10:06)
1-2. Aimi Kobayashi – 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935: No. 2 in A-Flat Major (08:59)
1-3. Aimi Kobayashi – 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935: No. 3 in B-Flat Major (12:35)
1-4. Aimi Kobayashi – 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935: No. 4 in F Minor (06:35)
1-5. Aimi Kobayashi – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: I. Allegro (08:27)
1-6. Aimi Kobayashi – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: II. Adagio (09:13)
1-7. Aimi Kobayashi – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: III. Menuetto. Allegro – Trio (03:25)
1-8. Aimi Kobayashi – Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958: IV. Allegro (09:54)
1-9. Aimi Kobayashi – Franz Schuberts geistliche Lieder, S. 562: No. 1, Litaney (04:18)
1-10. Aimi Kobayashi – 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558: No. 7, Frühlingsglaube (03:53)
1-11. Aimi Kobayashi – Rondo in A Major, D. 951 (11:53)

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