Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Ballades
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Ballades
Seong-Jin Cho (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 25 November 2016
South Korea's Seong-Jin Cho, aged 21, was announced winner of the prestigious 17th international Frederic Chopin piano competition in the Polish capital, Warsaw on the evening of 20th October 2015.
The competition, held every five years, is one of the few in which pianists play pieces by a single composer. 84 pianists aged 16 to 30, from 45 countries, qualified for the 2015 four-stage series of final recitals held over a three-week period in October.
The competition opened on 1 October with a gala concert featuring Martha Argerich and finished with the Grand Finale recitals by the top 10 pianists on 18-20 October. The Chopin Competition is renowned for discovering the world's most talented pianists. Past winners include Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, Krystian Zimmerman, Yundi Li and Rafał Blechacz.
This all-Chopin disc was made from live performances from the competition's finals.
"it is not so much [Cho's] effortless clarity and articulation or lightly pedalled fioritura that capture the attention as much as his ability to let the music breathe. Every time the first movement's ineffably lovely second subject returns, it becomes more poignant in Cho's hands…[a] memorable interpretation" Gramophone
"…his playing is unfailingly cultivated and his sound beautifully focused and poised.[Concerto in E minor]…Cho commands the work, and he leads the dance in the finale" BBC Music
"The tenderest passages in the concerto have a touching reticence, and there are times in the Ballades when he almost seems to be enjoying hanging back and confounding our expectations of exactly where this music's passionate eruptions happen." The Guardian
Tracks:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
