Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Ballades (Deluxe) Seong-Jin Cho

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11:
• 1 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: 1. Allegro maestoso 20:31
• 2 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: 2. Romance (Larghetto) 10:35
• 3 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: 3. Rondo (Vivace) 10:09
• Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23:
• 4 Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 10:05
• Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38:
• 5 Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38 07:38
• Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Major, Op. 47:
• 6 Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A Flat Major, Op. 47 07:50
• Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52:
• 7 Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 12:07
• Nocturne In C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth.:
• 8 Chopin: Nocturne In C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. 04:09
• Total Runtime 01:23:04

Info for Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; Ballades (Deluxe)

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs compositional works by Chopin along with the London Symphony Orchestra led by Gianandrea Noseda.

In 2015, aged just 21, Seong-Jin Cho won First Prize at the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition, one of the most prestigious titles in all classical music. Now, in his first studio recording, Cho combines Chopin's immensely popular Piano Concerto No. 1 with his almost equally beloved Ballades, revealing that he not only has brilliant fingers but is a master of characterization too.

"Cho is impressive" - Gramomphone

"Nothing is done just for show; it's all about the music" - The Guardian

"Unequivocally brilliant" - The Telegraph

"Everything is poetic, introspective, graceful" - Financial Times

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

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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