CHOPIN: PRELUDES/PIANO WORKS

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.