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Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works

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Beauty of sound is one of the real strengths of Cho’s Ravel, whether it’s the seductive ripples of Jeux d'eau, the crystalline brilliance of the Sonatine or the glinting cascades of Une barque...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20254 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

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Beauty of sound is one of the real strengths of Cho’s Ravel, whether it’s the seductive ripples of Jeux d'eau, the crystalline brilliance of the Sonatine or the glinting cascades of Une barque...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20254 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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“I’ve always been fascinated by the ideas, colours and emotions to be found in Ravel’s music, and it has been an honour to record his complete solo piano works and concertos” (Seong-Jin Cho)

Having loved Ravel since childhood and immersed himself in the composer while studying at the Paris Conservatoire, the young Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho has chosen to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2025 by recording his complete solo piano music and the two piano concertos, where he collaborates with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons.

One of today’s most elegant and accomplished pianists, ten years on from his Chopin Competition victory, Cho will release the first of the two albums, Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works, on 17 January 2025 (digitally and on two CDs). Seong-Jin Cho has always felt a close connection with the French piano literature and found himself fully discussing the challenges of the solo works, pointing to the composer’s orchestral sound and meticulous attention to detail. “Ravel really knew what he wanted, so I try to follow his specific markings,” he says.

Contents and tracklist

Ravel: Sérénade grotesque
Work length3:25
Ravel: Menuet antique
Work length5:58
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Work length6:38
Ravel: Jeux d'eau
Work length5:33
Ravel: Sonatine
Work length11:51
I. Modéré
Track length4:40
II. Mouvement de menuet
Track length3:15
III. Animé
Track length3:56
Ravel: Miroirs, M.43
Work length28:15
I. Noctuelles
Track length4:33
II. Oiseaux tristes
Track length4:10
III. Une barque sur l'océan
Track length6:48
IV. Alborada del gracioso
Track length6:43
V. La vallée des cloches
Track length6:01
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Work length21:26
I. Ondine
Track length6:23
II. Le Gibet
Track length5:48
III. Scarbo
Track length9:15
Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
Work length1:54
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Work length15:47
I. Modéré, très franc
Track length1:26
II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
Track length2:19
III. Modéré
Track length1:23
IV. Assez animé
Track length1:10
V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
Track length1:18
VI. Vif
Track length0:39
VII. Moins vif
Track length2:51
VIII. Epilogue. Lent
Track length4:41
Ravel: Prélude in A minor, M.65
Work length1:31
Ravel: A la manière de Borodine
Work length1:37
Ravel: A la manière de Chabrier
Work length1:59
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Work length25:20
I. Prélude
Track length3:14
II. Fugue
Track length3:29
III. Forlane
Track length6:26
IV. Rigaudon
Track length3:21
V. Menuet
Track length4:59
VI. Toccata
Track length3:51

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

March 2025

Beauty of sound is one of the real strengths of Cho’s Ravel, whether it’s the seductive ripples of Jeux d'eau, the crystalline brilliance of the Sonatine or the glinting cascades of Une barque sur l’océan. The way he sculpts the music, using silence to potent effect, is superb too
4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

15th January 2025

Cho’s strength is that he keeps such a high standard of accuracy and clarity, down to the exact weighting of every chord even at speed, without sounding clinical or purely a virtuoso. There is always poetry here and grace, exceptionally so in the baroque elegance of Le Tombeau de Couperin...Ravel playing of such perfection of detail does not come round often.
4 out of 5 stars

April 2025

True, as we’d expect from a Gold Medal winner at the Warsaw Chopin Competition (2015), Cho has a nearly flawless technique – check out the clarity of Gaspard’s ‘Ondine’, for example, or the astonishing dexterity of the repeated notes in the Toccata that brings Le tombeau de Couperin to a sparkling close...But for all his virtuosity, extroverted moments are rare.

17th January 2025

The magic of this new set is that Cho brings to life the pure clarity and more metrical classicism of Ravel in a wholly engaging and sensitively expressed way. The Valses nobles et sentimentales display more nobility than sentimentality, and are representative of Cho’s playing throughout this set, evoking Ravel the polite and well-presented gentleman. That doesn’t mean cold or clinical though, and there is plenty of expression.
Matthew Ash
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