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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades

Awards:

…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 Magazine, May 20174 out of 5 stars

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

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This release includes a digital booklet

Awards:

…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 Magazine, May 20174 out of 5 stars

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About

Winner of the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition 2015, one of the most prestigious titles in all of classical music, Seong-Jin Cho presents his first ever studio recording on DG.

Combining Chopin’s immensely popular 1st Piano Concerto with the almost equally popular 4 Ballades, this coupling displays his brilliant fingerwork and mastery of characterization.

Cho recorded the work at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra and its new Principal Guest Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda. His interpretations of the composer’s Ballades were set down at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Harburg, Germany.

“Cho is impressive” – Gramophone

“Unequivocally brilliant” – The Telegraph

“Nothing is done just for show; it’s all about the music” – The Guardian

“Everything is poetic, introspective, graceful” – Financial Times

Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Work length41:19
1. Allegro maestoso
Track length20:31
2. Romance (Larghetto)
Track length10:34
3. Rondo (Vivace)
Track length10:14
Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Work length10:05
Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Work length7:37
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Work length7:49
Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Work length12:06

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Awards and reviews

May 2017

…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
4 out of 5 stars

January 2017

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

25th November 2016

what a performance it is: utterly commanding and highly impressive. From his very first entry he shows off the range of his formidable technique...With Noseda's help, the LSO offers some of the most sensitive orchestral accompaniment that I can recall hearing. They're alive to every nuance of Cho's playing, and match his rubato perfectly.

22nd December 2016

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.
4 out of 5 stars

Classical Ear 1st February 2017

In the four magnificent Ballades Cho's playing has all the poetic imagination, freshness of new discovery and tender warmth you could wish for, allied to a bomb-proof technique that totally eschews any suggestion of flashy display – the genius of Chopin's inspiration always comes first.
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