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George Frideric Handel

Seong-Jin Cho: The Handel Project: Handel: 3 Suites/Brahms: Handel Variations

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Released: 3rd February 2023. The sensational South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, the best-selling winner of the International Chopin Competition, shares his love for an often neglected corner of the keyboard repertoire: Handel's Keyboard Suites. Each suite is brilliantly characterful and brimming with life, and Cho has selected his three absolute favourites to play in full. Another lover of Handel's Keyboard Suites was Johannes Brahms - so Cho pairs the suites with the later composer's spectacular 'Handel Variations' op. 24. Cho finds that Baroque music gives the performer a good deal of leeway. 'You can use a certain amount of pedal and play these works in a very Romantic way'. As a result the Korean pianist has sought as far as possible to avoid using the sustaining pedal 'in order to ensure greater clarity'. On the other hand, he has altered some of the dynamics in order to exploit the possibilities of a modern piano. 'I really worked on my technique a lot as I wanted to bring out all of the voices. I tried to maintain different colours in them all. And I imagined a concerto grosso. The lefthand voice, for example, could sound like a bassoon. Or a voice in the right hand could sound like a violin'. (Seong-Jin Cho)

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  • Details

    Released:
    3rd February 2023
    Category:
    Classical
    Format:
    CD Album
    Barcode:
    28948630189
  • Description

    The sensational South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, the best-selling winner of the International Chopin Competition, shares his love for an often neglected corner of the keyboard repertoire: Handel's Keyboard Suites. Each suite is brilliantly characterful and brimming with life, and Cho has selected his three absolute favourites to play in full. Another lover of Handel's Keyboard Suites was Johannes Brahms - so Cho pairs the suites with the later composer's spectacular 'Handel Variations' op. 24. Cho finds that Baroque music gives the performer a good deal of leeway. 'You can use a certain amount of pedal and play these works in a very Romantic way'. As a result the Korean pianist has sought as far as possible to avoid using the sustaining pedal 'in order to ensure greater clarity'. On the other hand, he has altered some of the dynamics in order to exploit the possibilities of a modern piano. 'I really worked on my technique a lot as I wanted to bring out all of the voices. I tried to maintain different colours in them all. And I imagined a concerto grosso. The lefthand voice, for example, could sound like a bassoon. Or a voice in the right hand could sound like a violin'. (Seong-Jin Cho)
  • Track listing

    Disc 1

    Track name
    Artist
    1.I. Adagio
    Seong-Jin Cho
    2.II. Allegro
    Seong-Jin Cho
    3.III. Adagio
    Seong-Jin Cho
    4.IV. Allegro
    Seong-Jin Cho
    5.I. Prelude
    Seong-Jin Cho
    6.II. Allegro
    Seong-Jin Cho
    7.III. Allemande
    Seong-Jin Cho
    8.IV. Courante
    Seong-Jin Cho
    9.V. Gigue
    Seong-Jin Cho
    10.I. Prelude
    Seong-Jin Cho
    11.II. Allemande
    Seong-Jin Cho
    12.III. Courante
    Seong-Jin Cho
    13.IV. Air and Variations 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
    Seong-Jin Cho
    14.Aria
    Seong-Jin Cho
    15.Variation 1
    Seong-Jin Cho
    16.Variation 2. Animato
    Seong-Jin Cho
    17.Variation 3. Dolce
    Seong-Jin Cho
    18.Variation 4. Risoluto
    Seong-Jin Cho
    19.Variation 5. Espressivo
    Seong-Jin Cho
    20.Variation 6
    Seong-Jin Cho
    21.Variation 7. Con Vivacita
    Seong-Jin Cho
    22.Variation 8
    Seong-Jin Cho
    23.Variation 9. Poco Sostenuto
    Seong-Jin Cho
    24.Variation 10. Energico
    Seong-Jin Cho
    25.Variation 11. Dolce
    Seong-Jin Cho
    26.Variation 12. Soave
    Seong-Jin Cho
    27.Variation 13. Largamente, Ma Non Piu
    Seong-Jin Cho
    28.Variation 14. Sciolto
    Seong-Jin Cho
    29.Variation 15
    Seong-Jin Cho
    30.Variation 16. Ma Marcato
    Seong-Jin Cho
    31.Variation 17. Piu Mosso
    Seong-Jin Cho
    32.Variation 18. Grazioso
    Seong-Jin Cho
    33.Variation 19. Leggiero E Vivace
    Seong-Jin Cho
    34.Variation 20. Legato
    Seong-Jin Cho
    35.Variation 21. Dolce
    Seong-Jin Cho
    36.Variation 22
    Seong-Jin Cho
    37.Variation 23. Vivace E Staccato
    Seong-Jin Cho
    38.Variation 24
    Seong-Jin Cho
    39.Variation 25
    Seong-Jin Cho
    40.Fugue
    Seong-Jin Cho
    41.III. Sarabande
    Seong-Jin Cho
    42.IV. Minuet
    Seong-Jin Cho
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