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This page has not yet been revised to take into account the removal and reappearance of clips on YouTube at the end of last year. Most of the links have been disabled. Until the re-uploading is complete, please use the chronological list starting on this page. | |||||||
Catalogue of Aimi Kobayashi videos on YouTube Videos listed by Composer J. S. Bach Two Part Invention no. 9 BWV 780 VIEW (followed by Beethoven Leichte Sonata) Age 5 or 6; total length: 8:35
Allemande from the 6th French Suite VIEW (followed by Chopin Mazurka no. 5 in B flat major, op. 7-1) Age 8; total length: 3:40 (poor sound)
French Suite no. 5 VIEW Age 12; length: 7:39
2nd Partita in C minor, BWV 826, Sinfonia VIEW June 2008 (age 12); length: 4:40
Beethoven Variations on Nel cor più non mi sento VIEW Age 4? length: 5:15
Leichte Sonata (second piece) VIEW (with J. S. Bach, Two Part Invention No. 9 BWV 780) Age 5 or 6; length: 8:35
Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major, op. 14, 1st movement, Allegro VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 6? length: 4:39 See also version played when 11, below.
Piano Sonata no. 5 in C minor First movement (length: ca 4 min) VIEW Second and third movements (length: 10:46) VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 7
Piano Sonata no. 5 in C minor (Not a YouTube video) All movements in one video VIEW Age 9; Length: 15:42
Piano Sonata no. 10 in G major, 1st movement, Allegro VIEW Age 11?; length: 5:00 See also version played when 6, above. All three movements can be heard as mp3s from the PTNA site (www.piano.or.jp). No details are given, but it may have been the same performance. A good recording. Here are the links (use back button to return to this page): 1st movement Allegro (m3u/mp3, 5:03) 2nd movement Andante (m3u/mp3, 4:14) 3rd movement Scherzo allegro assai (m3u/mp3, 3:37)
Cadenza to 1st piano concerto VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 12; length: 4:24
Piano Sonata in C major no. 21 op. 53 “Waldstein” Performed at an AADGT function “Passion of Music” 12 June 2008. A characteristic Aimi treatment! In places the first movement doesn't go altogether smoothly, but otherwise a very convincing interpretation. Age 12; total length 23:18 VIEW 1st movement (8:54) Removed by the poster mid-Nov VIEW 2nd movement and part of 3rd (7:33; cuts out in medias res) VIEW Rest of 3rd movement (6:51) Removed by the poster mid-Nov For an interesting analysis of Waldstein by Andras Schiff, done at the keyboard of his own piano in the Wigmore Hall, London, see this link (long mp3, ca 45 min). Especially good on the 3rd movement. Things like this are a wonderful aid to appreciating what you're hearing! Click back button to return here.
There are also tantalising scraps of the Pathétique sonata in the two Japanese TV interviews done when she was 11 — for links see the first part of the catalogue, above. I am told by someone who knows that there is a recording of the complete sonata made in a certain very famous concert hall. Unfortunately this venue will not waive copyright restrictions, so we are unlikely to see Pathétique until a recording is made elsewhere.
Chopin Mazurka no. 5 in B flat major, op. 7-1 (second piece) VIEW (with J. S. Bach, Allemande from 6th French Suite) Age 8; length: 3:40
Nocturne no. 20 in C sharp minor VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE 1 VIEW DUPLICATE 2 Age 8 or 9 (both ages are given by poster); length: 3:49
Etude op. 25 no. 2 VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 10; length: 1:43 (poor recording, wonderful performance)
Scherzo no. 1 in B min op. 20 VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Played as part of a recital; see also performance below. Age 12; length: 10:36
Scherzo no. 1 in B min op. 20 VIEW Played as an encore; considered to be the better performance. Age 12; length: 7:55
1st Impromptu/Impromptu in A Flat, op. 29 VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 12; length: 4:43
Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31 VIEW Performed at an AADGT function "Passion of Music" 12 June 2008. Age 12; length 10:04
Clementi Sonatina op. 36, 1st movement VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 4; length: 3:29
Debussy Arabesque no. 2 VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 8; length: 3:40 Corinne, my co-owler and a musician herself, makes some interesting comments on this performance in an entry titled "Debussy—For Adults Only?" in her music blog. An admirer of Aimi's playing, she was set to wondering why, of all her performances on YouTube, this one interpretation just didn't quite cut it.
Liszt Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto VIEW Age 12; length: 7:51
Schumann's Widmung, transcription for solo piano by Liszt — see under Schumann.
Mozart Piano Concerto no. 26 Coronation Part of 1st movement VIEW VIEW DUPLICATE Age 10; length: 9:59
Piano Concerto no. 26 Coronation Complete. To view, start here Age 11; length: ca 30 minutes To see this long clip of all three movements played in Moscow in December 2006 you will have to register on the Russian site where the clip is archived. I give full instructions on how to do this — clicking the "start here" link above takes you to the main entry on my Aimi pages for this performance, and there you will find all you need to get the video playing.
Next item is not on YouTube — only available as mp3s from the PTNA site (www.piano.or.jp) Piano Sonata no. 12 in F major K332 Recorded December 2005 at Chiba Hall Plaza Paruru (she would have been 10). The ambience is a little hard and echoey, but this is a classy performance. If I had to pick a favourite movement, it would be the Allegro assai. Click back button to return to this page. 1st movement Allegro (m3u/mp3, 4:51) 2nd movement Adagio (m3u/mp3, 4:56) 3rd movement Allegro assai (m3u/mp3, 4:59)
Mozart Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K466, 1st movement (complete) VIEW Age 13; length 14:24
Schubert Impromptu op. 90 no. 2 VIEW Age 6; length: 4:24
Schumann Widmung (Dedication), arranged/transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt Encore after concert in St Petersburg February 15, 2008 (Age 12; length: 4:21) VIEW
Other Two pieces, first Japanese, second thought to be an étude by Bartok VIEW Age 3; length: 2:43
Unidentified piece VIEW Age 4; length: 0:57
Two unidentified pieces VIEW Age 5; length 1:19
Next page: Aimi's concert schedule 2009
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Aimi, aged 8, amazing jury and audience with her playing at the PTNA competition in 2004, when she won at the under-16 level. She “exhibited outstanding maturity and infinite musical talent … leaving other participants far behind”, says the PTNA Newsletter for that year. In the final round she played the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata no. 10 and the Chopin Etude op. 25 no. 2.
