Episode 130: 19130 Seong-Jin Cho - The Handel Project

Handel’s keyboard suites have remained strangers to most concert pianists. Seong-Jin Cho hopes that his latest album for Deutsche Grammophon will shed new light on some of the most heartfelt of all Baroque music. Set for release today, The Handel Project contains three of the 28-year-old South Korean pianist’s favourite suites from Handel’s first collection of Suites de pièces pour le clavecin. These are coupled with Brahms’s virtuosic Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, which Cho believes to be “the best variations that have ever been written”.Track Listing:1 Adagio 02:362 Allegro 02:183 Adagio 01:374 Allegro 02:105 Prélude 02:166 Allegro 02:297 Allemande 03:058 Courante 01:419 Gigue 02:0110 Prélude 02:0911 Allemande 04:3412 Courante 01:4313 Air & 5 Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" 03:3514 Aria 00:4915 Var. 1 00:4716 Var. 2 (Animato) 00:4217 Var. 3 (Dolce) 00:4418 Var. 4 (Risoluto) 00:4919 Var. 5 (Espressivo) 00:5720 Var. 6 00:5621 Var. 7 (Con vivacitá) 00:3822 Var. 8 00:3623 Var. 9 (Poco sostenuto) 01:1724 Var. 10 (Energico) 00:3525 Var. 11 (Dolce) 00:4826 Var. 12 (Soave) 00:4927 Var. 13 (Largamente, ma non più) 01:2528 Var. 14 (Sciolto) 00:3829 Var. 15 00:4430 Var. 16 (Piano ma marcato) 00:3131 Var. 17 (Più mosso) 00:2932 Var. 18 (Grazioso) 00:5133 Var. 19 (Leggiero e vivace) 01:0634 Var. 20 (Legato) 01:2335 Var. 21 (Dolce) 00:5136 Var. 22 01:0537 Var. 23 (Vivace e staccato) 00:3338 Var. 24 00:3339 Var. 25 00:3840 Fugue 05:0841 Sarabande 02:3642 Minuet (Arr. Kempff for Piano) 04:17Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected] album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson and Amanda Bloom).