Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Alim Beisembayev

Alim Beisembayev

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Live from Wigmore Hall, a piano recital of music by Chopin and Clementi.

Alim Beisembayev, winner of this year's Leeds International Piano Competition, performs Chopin's Preludes and Clementi's Sonata in F sharp minor, live at London's Wigmore Hall.

Still only in his twenties, Alim Beisembayev won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2021. He also took home the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. Here, he performs one of the most formidable works in the piano's repertoire: Chopin's cycle of twenty-four preludes.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall.
Presented by Hannah French.

Clementi: Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 25 No 5
Chopin: Preludes, Op 28

Alim Beisembayev (piano)

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