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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 2025, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 17th Jan 2025
Catalogue No: 4866814
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

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Ravel: Sérénade grotesque

Work length3:25

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Menuet antique

Work length5:58

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Work length6:38

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Jeux d'eau

Work length5:33

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Sonatine

Work length11:51

$3.30

$4.50

$6.15

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

I. Modéré

Track length4:40

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II. Mouvement de menuet

Track length3:15

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III. Animé

Track length3:56

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Ravel: Miroirs, M.43

Work length28:15

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

I. Noctuelles

Track length4:33

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II. Oiseaux tristes

Track length4:10

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III. Une barque sur l'océan

Track length6:48

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IV. Alborada del gracioso

Track length6:43

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V. La vallée des cloches

Track length6:01

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Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Work length21:26

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

I. Ondine

Track length6:23

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II. Le Gibet

Track length5:48

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III. Scarbo

Track length9:15

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Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

Work length1:54

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Work length15:47

$8.80

$12.00

$16.40

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

I. Modéré, très franc

Track length1:26

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II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense

Track length2:19

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III. Modéré

Track length1:23

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IV. Assez animé

Track length1:10

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V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime

Track length1:18

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VI. Vif

Track length0:39

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VII. Moins vif

Track length2:51

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VIII. Epilogue. Lent

Track length4:41

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Ravel: Prélude in A minor, M.65

Work length1:31

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: A la manière de Borodine

Work length1:37

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: A la manière de Chabrier

Work length1:59

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Work length25:20

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Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Recorded: 2024-09-09
Recording Venue: Siemens-Villa, Berlin

I. Prélude

Track length3:14

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II. Fugue

Track length3:29

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III. Forlane

Track length6:26

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IV. Rigaudon

Track length3:21

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V. Menuet

Track length4:59

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VI. Toccata

Track length3:51

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Recording of the Week, Seong-Jin Cho in Ravel's complete solo piano works

17th January 2025

Seong-Jin Cho has established himself firmly as a musician and pianist who uses his fluid technique to express a carefully chosen repertoire, placing the voice of the composer as the focus of his playing. His latest release proves to be a deft and subtle exploration of Ravel.

“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.

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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

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.

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.

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