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

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)

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

Composer: Johannes Brahms, George Frideric Handel

Number of Discs: 1

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