Artist: Seong-Jin Cho Title Of Album: Winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw 2015 Year Of Release: 2015 Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG) Country: South Korea Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (*tracks, booklet) Bitrate: Lossless [96kHz/24bit] Time: 01:12:20 Full Size: 1.43 GB
Tracklist:
Preludes, Op.28: 01. In C Major 02. In A Minor 03. In G Major 04. In E Minor 05. In D Major 06. In B Minor 07. In A Major 08. In F Sharp Minor 09. In E Major 10. In C Sharp Minor 11. In B Major 12. In G Sharp Minor 13. In F Sharp Major 14. In E Flat Minor 15. In D Flat Major 16. In B Flat Minor 17. In A Flat Major 18. In F Minor 19. In E Flat Major 20. In C Minor 21. In B Flat Major 22. In G Minor 23. In F Major 24. In D Minor
25. Nocturne In C Minor, Op.48 No.1
Piano Sonata No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.35: 26. 1. Grave - Doppio movimento 27. 2. Scherzo - Piu lento - Tempo I 28. 3. Marche funebre (Lento) 29. 4. Finale (Presto)
30. Polonaise In A Flat Major, Op.53
The classical music landscape is so littered with competitions in which the fix is in for a dutifully colorless musician that one might justifiably treat the 21-year-old South Korean Seong-Jin Cho with skepticism after hearing that he won the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. His performances there were recorded in October of 2015 and released by Deutsche Grammophon a scant six weeks later, and the good news is that Cho is a competition winner of a different stripe. These are entirely innovative readings of Chopin standards, rendered with muscular excitement. The best comes first on the program here with the set of Preludes, Op. 28, where Cho strips out any hint of hazy mood music or late-Romantic neurasthenia, focusing on the counterpoint and turning the remarkable level of dissonance from a sort of chromatic wash into a pure extension of Bachian principles. Sample one of the well-known preludes, such as the Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (track four), to learn what you're getting here: tough, detailed readings that make you hear the music anew. The Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, is a bit less daring, but it's a forceful, absorbing performance of the work throughout, and the single Nocturne and Polonaise each suggest new avenues of interpretation in those genres. Hats off, gentlemen (and gentlewomen) -- a major new Chopin interpreter! -- James Manheim
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