The 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition was recorded and broadcast to audiences around Australia and the world, and we are very grateful to our partners at Decca Australia for making the following releases of some of the top prize winners live preliminary and semi final solo rounds.
You can buy your copy now for $35 each or take advantage of a special offer when you buy all three for the price of three for $90 a saving of $15. All prices include postage and handling within Australia.
Jeonghwan Kim won the Ernest Hutcheson First Prize, Miriam Hyde Best Concerto post-1800 Prize and the Eileen Joyce Best Overall Concerto Prize. Listen to one of the world’s most exciting emerging artists and rediscover this year’s competition.
Johann Sebastian Bach:
from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Prelude and Fugue No.20 in A minor BWV 865
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
10 Variations on ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K.455
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No.26 in E♭ major Op.81a ‘Les Adieux’
I. Das Lebewohl. Adagio – Allegro
II. Abwesenheit. Adagio – Allegro
III. Das Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente
Mark Grandison:
Broken Threads (Abridged Version III)
Prelude
Passacaglia I
Passacaglia III
Toccata III
Passacaglia IV
World Premiere Recording
Oliver Messiaen:
from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
No.10 Regard de l’Esprit de joie
Frédéric Chopin:
Berceuse in D♭ major Op.57
Robert Schumann:
4 Nachtstücke Op.23
No.1 Mehr langsam, oft zurückhaltend
No.2 Markiert und lebhaft
No.3 Mit großer Lebhaftigkeit
No.4 Ad libitum – Einfach
Sergey Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No.6 in A major Op.82
Uladzislau Khandohi won the Percy Grainger Second Prize, Edward Cahill Best Preliminaries Round 1 Recital Prize, Ignaz Friedman Best Semi Final Recital Prize, and Best Encore in the Semi Final. Uladzislau became a laureate of many international competitions, and since 2020, has been a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, studying with Professor Natalia Trull.
Polonaise in F# minor Op.44
from Mazurkas Op.17
No.4 in A minor
Wynona Yinuo Wang won the Arthur Benjamin Fifth Prize, Board of Directors’ Prize for Excellence, and Hephzibah Menuhin Best Performance of a Sonata for Violin and Piano Prize.
Wynona has already performed concertos with numerous orchestras in the US, and has also appeared at major venues including Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Dallas Opera House, the Metropolitan Museum’s Rogers Auditorium and Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center.