Seong-Jin Cho - The Handel Project: Handel-Suites & Brahms-Variations (2023)

Sensational South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho shares his love for Handel’s often neglected keyboard suites. Each of these works is brilliantly full of character and life, and Cho has chosen his three favourites for his forthcoming album, The Handel Project. Brahms loved the suites too, and Cho has also recorded the latter’s spectacular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, based on one movement from Suite No. 3. You can get a first taste of the pianist’s new album with his performance of Handel’s Minuet in G minor, as arranged by Wilhelm Kempff.
Listen to the second pre-release track ‘Handel: Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: I. Adagio’ via the streaming tab above.

TRACKLIST

1. Seong-Jin Cho - I. Adagio
2. Seong-Jin Cho - II. Allegro
3. Seong-Jin Cho - III. Adagio
4. Seong-Jin Cho - IV. Allegro
5. Seong-Jin Cho - I. Prélude
6. Seong-Jin Cho - II. Allegro
7. Seong-Jin Cho - III. Allemande
8. Seong-Jin Cho - IV. Courante
9. Seong-Jin Cho - V. Gigue
10. Seong-Jin Cho - I. Prélude
11. Seong-Jin Cho - II. Allemande
12. Seong-Jin Cho - III. Courante
13. Seong-Jin Cho - IV. Air & 5 Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith"
14. Seong-Jin Cho - Aria
15. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 1
16. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 2 (Animato)
17. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 3 (Dolce)
18. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 4 (Risoluto)
19. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 5 (Espressivo)
20. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 6
21. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 7 (Con vivacitá)
22. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 8
23. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 9 (Poco sostenuto)
24. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 10 (Energico)
25. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 11 (Dolce)
26. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 12 (Soave)
27. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 13 (Largamente, ma non più)
28. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 14 (Sciolto)
29. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 15
30. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 16 (Piano ma marcato)
31. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 17 (Più mosso)
32. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 18 (Grazioso)
33. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 19 (Leggiero e vivace)
34. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 20 (Legato)
35. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 21 (Dolce)
36. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 22
37. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 23 (Vivace e staccato)
38. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 24
39. Seong-Jin Cho - Var. 25
40. Seong-Jin Cho - Fugue
41. Seong-Jin Cho - III. Sarabande
42. Seong-Jin Cho - IV. Minuet (Arr. Kempff for Piano)