Sean Chen, Crystal Award: 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

a player of great intelligence, capable of really sustained concentration ... the musicianship is impressive. — International Record Review, February 2014

Release Date: 28th Oct 2013
Catalogue No: HMU907607
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Series: Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Length: 70 minutes

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Brahms: Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1

Work length18:26

Album only

Sean Chen

Theme (Poco Larghetto) - Variations I-XI

Track length18:26

Album only

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

Work length43:13

Album only

Sean Chen

I. Allegro

Track length11:04

$1.40

$1.75

$3.20

II. Scherzo (Assai vivace)

Track length2:42

$1.00

$1.25

$1.60

III. Adagio sostenuto (Appassionato e con molto sentimento)

Track length17:20

Album only

IV. Largo - Allegro - Allegro risoluto

Track length12:07

$1.40

$1.75

$3.20

Bartók: 3 Studies, BB 81, Sz. 72, Op. 18

Work length8:33

$3.00

$3.75

$4.80

Sean Chen

I. Allegro molto

Track length2:19

$1.00

$1.25

$1.60

II. Rubato - Tempo giusto

Track length3:38

$1.00

$1.25

$1.60

III. Andante sostenuto

Track length2:36

$1.00

$1.25

$1.60

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Sean Chen captivated audiences and critics at the 2013 Cliburn Competition with concerts “that had the crowd not just standing…but cheering loudly,” (KDHX, St. Louis) earning the crystal award and winning three years of concert tours in the United States—the first American to win a prize since 1997. Markedly, in his Final Round performance of Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3, “he summoned massive, orchestral sonorities, yet he could also play with enormous delicacy. It was a muscular, impassioned performance, and you felt like he is an artist with something to say” (Cincinnati Enquirer).

Highlights of the 2013–14 season include return invitations to perform with the Indianapolis and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Jordan Hall in Boston, and recital and concerto appearances across the United States and Europe.

Born in Florida, Sean. Chen grew up in Oak Park, California and has collected awards that include the 2010 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight Award, and an NFAA ARTSweek award. He now resides in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is pursuing his artist diploma at the Yale School of Music under Hung-Kuan Chen.

He previously studied with Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio at The Juilliard School, where he earned his bachelor’s degree.

Reviews

February 2014

a player of great intelligence, capable of really sustained concentration ... the musicianship is impressive.

Sean Chen, Crystal Award

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue