Leeds Piano Competition 2021 Wigmore Hall Prizewinner Recital

Kaito Kobayashi Piano

W.A. MOZART  Piano Sonata in F K533/494
FRANZ SCHUBERT  Impromptu in B flat D935 No. 3
GYÖRGY KURTÁG  8 Piano Pieces Op. 3
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Préludes Book II: La puerta del vino
Préludes Book I: La sérénade interrompue; La danse de Puck
Préludes Book II: Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Ondine
Préludes Book I: Minstrels; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest

Achieving second place in the 2021 Leeds Competition, according to The Times the Japanese pianist ‘delighted in Bach and gave the most wonderfully sprightly account of a Haydn sonata’. He also ‘danced through Bartók’s Third Concerto’, and received the Yaltah Menuhin Award ‘for being so collegial in Dvořák’s Piano Quintet’.

https://leedspiano.medici.tv/en/replay/semi-final-with-kaito-kobayashi