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Review of Alim Beisembayev at King’s Lynn Minster: Piano recital was a highlight of King’s Lynn Festival




Reviewer Andy Tyler says this piano recital was a definite stand-out moment from King’s Lynn Festival…

Without doubt, in a festival full of highlights, Alim Beisembayev’s recent piano recital at Lynn Minster was certainly one!

Thanks to the King’s Lynn Festival and its sponsors the full audience had the opportunity to experience one of today’s finest pianists giving authoritative and technically superb performances of music by Schubert, Debussy and Chopin.

The Minster in King's Lynn
The Minster in King's Lynn

The programme consisted of Schubert’s Four Impromptus, D.935, Debussy’s second set of Images (1907), and Chopin’s Etudes, Op.25.

The Schubert and Chopin pieces romantic, passionate and melodious, and the Debussy experimental and atmospheric, all the differing moods and subtleties of the pieces masterfully interpreted by this fine pianist.

Alim, born in Kazakhstan, in 1998, won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021, is a BBC New Generation Artist, and has performed widely, including at The BBC Proms.

He has broadcast on TV and radio and in December 2022, released a debut album of music by Liszt on The Warner Classics label, which met with critical acclaim.

In the future, he will continue to give solo recitals and perform with some of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors.

I was delighted when Alim gave, as an encore, Rachmaninov’s Prelude in G Major, as I wanted to get a flavour of his interpretation of that composer‘s work; I was not disappointed!

Review by Andy Tyler



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