Credits:

Handel (1685-1759)

Description:

Sensational Korean pianist puts her heart and soul into her new album of Handel's musicNew album by internationally acclaimed Korean pianist Cho Sung Jin, winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition. Seong-Jin Cho has also devoted her love to an often forgotten keyboard repertoire, Handel's Suites for keyboard. Each suite is wonderfully unique and full of life, but he has chosen three of his great favorites and performs them in their entirety. Then, another Handel keyboard suite aficionado, Brahms, combines his "Variations on a Theme by Handel," Op. 24. I wanted to give them all a voice, so I used a lot of different techniques. I tried to keep different timbres in all of them. And I imagined it as an ensemble concerto. For example, I wanted the left hand voice to sound like a bassoon and the right hand voice to sound like a violin.

Tracklisting:

1.Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427~I. Adagio
2.Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427~II. Allegro
3.Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427~III. Adagio
4.Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427~IV. Allegro
5.Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433~I. Prelude
6.Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433~II. Allegro
7.Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433~III. Allemande
8.Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433~IV. Courante
9.Suite No. 8 in F minor, HWV 433~V. Gigue
10.Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430~I. Prelude
11.Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430~II. Allemande
12.Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430~III. Courante
13.Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430~IV. Air & 5 Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith"
14.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Aria
15.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 1
16.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 2 Animato
17.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 3 Dolce
18.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 4 Risoluto
19.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 5 Espressivo
20.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 6
21.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 7 Con vivacita
22.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 8
23.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 9 Poco sostenuto
24.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 10 Energico
25.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 11 Dolce
26.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 12 Soave
27.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 13 Largamente, ma non piu
28.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 14 Sciotto
29.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 15
30.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 16 Piano ma marcato
31.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 17 Piu mosso
32.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 18 Grazioso
33.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 19 Leggiero e vivace
34.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 20 Legato
35.Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24~Var. 21 Dolce