Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works Seong-Jin Cho

• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937); Sérénade grotesque, M. 5:
• 1 Ravel: Sérénade grotesque, M. 5 03:25
• Menuet antique, M. 7:
• 2 Ravel: Menuet antique, M. 7 05:58
• Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19:
• 3 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 06:39
• Jeux d'eau, M. 30:
• 4 Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M. 30 05:33
• Sonatine, M. 40:
• 5 Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: I. Modéré 04:40
• 6 Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: II. Mouvement de menuet 03:16
• 7 Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40: III. Animé 03:57
• Miroirs, M. 43:
• 8 Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: I. Noctuelles 04:33
• 9 Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: II. Oiseaux tristes 04:10
• 10 Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: III. Une barque sur l'océan 06:49
• 11 Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del gracioso 06:43
• 12 Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: V. La vallée des cloches 06:01
• Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
• 13 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine 06:23
• 14 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le Gibet 05:48
• 15 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo 09:16
• Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, M. 58:
• 16 Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, M. 58 01:55
• Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61:
• 17 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: I. Modéré, très franc 01:26
• 18 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense 02:19
• 19 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: III. Modéré 01:24
• 20 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: IV. Assez animé 01:11
• 21 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime 01:19
• 22 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VI. Vif 00:40
• 23 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VII. Moins vif 02:52
• 24 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VIII. Epilogue. Lent 04:41
• Prélude in A Minor, M. 65:
• 25 Ravel: Prélude in A Minor, M. 65 01:32
• À la manière de Borodine, M. 63:
• 26 Ravel: À la manière de Borodine, M. 63/1 01:37
• 27 Ravel: À la manière de Chabrier, M. 63/2 02:00
• Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68:
• 28 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: I. Prélude 03:14
• 29 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: II. Fugue 03:30
• 30 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: III. Forlane 06:26
• 31 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: IV. Rigaudon 03:21
• 32 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: V. Menuet 05:00
• 33 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: VI. Toccata 03:51
• Total Runtime 02:11:29

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Seong-Jin Cho is opening the Ravel Year 2025 with his most ambitious project to date for Deutsche Grammophon: the Korean star pianist is releasing three Ravel albums between January and April to mark the 150th anniversary of the French composer's birth.

This first release comprises the complete works for solo piano in chronological order. In the summer of 2024, Cho faced the historic, comprehensive work in the historic Siemens Villa in Berlin: "Ravel knew what he wanted, so I try to stick to his exact playing instructions. Miroirs, for example, is technically incredibly challenging. It is emotional and dramatic, full of fantasy and color. It's almost impossible to follow every indication, but I do my best!" says Cho.

This seems to be working, as recent reviews suggest: After a recital in Madrid, Scherzo named Cho "perhaps the best Ravel interpreter of our time", while The Scotsman stated after the performance at the Edinburgh Festival: "Cho played the Ravel part of the concerto with almost incomprehensible precision in contrasting and rich colors, he was as if in the flow of the music, which allowed it to breathe full of lightness and warmth".

Seong-Jin Cho, Klavier
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Dirigent

Seong-Jin Cho
Born on 28 May 1994, in Seoul (South Korea), Seong-Jin Cho is today based in Paris. He won the International Fry- deryk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2008 and the Hamamatsu Piano Competition in Japan in 2009, as well as Third Prizes in both the Tchai- kovsky Competition in Russia in 2011 and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv in 2014. He has performed in con- cert with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the French Radio, Czech and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras under Myung-Whun Chung, the Munich Phil- harmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkarnov, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski, and both the Russian National Orchestra and Basel Symphony Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev. He has toured Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland,

Israel, China and the US. He has appeared in both concerts and recitals at the Tokyo Opera City, in Osaka, at the Moscow Con- servatory and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He has participated in numerous European festivals, including St. Petersburg, Moscow, Duszniki-Zdrój and Cracow, as well as festivals in New York and Castleton. As a chamber musi- cian, he has been invited to work with the outstanding violinist Kyung-Wha Chung.

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