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Chopin Competition Winner 2015: Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
he really is phenomenal: this music seems to flow out of him with such relaxed and elegant perfection
Chopin Competition Winner 2015: Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
he really is phenomenal: this music seems to flow out of him with such relaxed and elegant perfection
About
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.
Contents and tracklist
- Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-10-21
- Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-10-21
- Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-10-21
- Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-10-21
- Recording Venue: Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
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Interview with Seong-Jin Cho -
Seong-Jin Cho on the LSO, Ravel and the Chopin Competition
16th Sep 2025
As his Artist Portrait series with the London Symphony Orchestra gets underway, the South Korean pianist discusses his relationship with the city, the new concerto by his compatriot Donghoon Shin which he'll premiere in November, and his memories of winning the International Chopin Piano Competition almost exactly a decade ago...
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Seong-Jin Cho: Winner of the 2015 Chopin Piano Competition
13th Nov 2015
David listens to the young South Korean pianist's debut recording on DG.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week13th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2015
March 2016
he really is phenomenal: this music seems to flow out of him with such relaxed and elegant perfection
13th November 2015
There's no sense of him rolling up his sleeves for the hard-work part of the programme – Preludes and Sonata seem to be approached on an equal footing, and Cho is clearly no more daunted by the latter's scale than he was by the former's virtuosity...Seong-Jin Cho has certainly made his mark – this is as fine a début as any young artist could wish for. If there's any justice, we should be hearing a lot more from him in the coming years!
17th December 2015
His performance of the 24 Preludes Op 28 is ravishing. The wonderfully crisp, unfussy articulation one quickly takes for granted, but the restraint and subtle discrimination of Cho’s playing, combined with his silvery, never fulsome sound, is constantly beguiling.
