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 02:36
2 Allegro 02:18
3 Adagio 01:37
4 Allegro 02:10
5 Prélude 02:16
6 Allegro 02:29
7 Allemande 03:05
8 Courante 01:41
9 Gigue 02:01
10 Prélude 02:09
11 Allemande 04:34
12 Courante 01:43
13 Air & 5 Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" 03:35
14 Aria 00:49
15 Var. 1 00:47
16 Var. 2 (Animato) 00:42
17 Var. 3 (Dolce) 00:44
18 Var. 4 (Risoluto) 00:49
19 Var. 5 (Espressivo) 00:57
20 Var. 6 00:56
21 Var. 7 (Con vivacitá) 00:38
22 Var. 8 00:36
23 Var. 9 (Poco sostenuto) 01:17
24 Var. 10 (Energico) 00:35
25 Var. 11 (Dolce) 00:48
26 Var. 12 (Soave) 00:49
27 Var. 13 (Largamente, ma non più) 01:25
28 Var. 14 (Sciolto) 00:38
29 Var. 15 00:44
30 Var. 16 (Piano ma marcato) 00:31
31 Var. 17 (Più mosso) 00:29
32 Var. 18 (Grazioso) 00:51
33 Var. 19 (Leggiero e vivace) 01:06
34 Var. 20 (Legato) 01:23
35 Var. 21 (Dolce) 00:51
36 Var. 22 01:05
37 Var. 23 (Vivace e staccato) 00:33
38 Var. 24 00:33
39 Var. 25 00:38
40 Fugue 05:08
41 Sarabande 02:36
42 Minuet (Arr. Kempff for Piano) 04:17