Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:47 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Since the pianist’s early days, the South Korean Seong-Jin Cho (1994) has professed a fondness for French music in general and Debussy in particular. At his first public performance at the age of eleven, he played Children’s Corner by Debussy. When he decided, in 2012, to pursue his musical education abroad, he chose Paris, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur, where he frequented the classes of Michel Béroff, the undisputed expert on Debussy. Cho has come back to work again with his old teacher, who became a friend, with the aim of creating his own Debussy album; the choice of works here is “restricted” to works requiring a middling level of virtuosity – mechanical exhibition isn’t his thing, even though he has amply mastered his instrument – but whose poetical content allows the pianist to show off his own exquisite expertise as a musician. An homage to his own childhood, Children’s Corner, but also the two books ofImages and the exquisite Suite bergamasque. Let’s not forget that Seong-Jin Cho won Warsaw’s 2015 Chopin Prize, a sure-fire ticket to an international career.

Tracklist:
1-01. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images I, L. 110-1. Reflets dans l’eau (05:44)
1-02. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images I, L. 110-2. Hommage à Rameau (07:05)
1-03. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images I, L. 110-3. Mouvement (03:30)
1-04. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images II, L. 111-1. Cloches à travers les feuilles (04:32)
1-05. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images II, L. 111-2. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (05:56)
1-06. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Images II, L. 111-3. Poissons d’or (04:22)
1-07. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-1. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum (02:21)
1-08. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-2. Jimbo’s Lullaby (03:40)
1-09. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-3. Serenade For The Doll (02:42)
1-10. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-4. The Snow Is Dancing (02:29)
1-11. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-5. The Little Shepherd (02:53)
1-12. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113-6. Golliwog’s Cakewalk (02:59)
1-13. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75-1. Prélude (04:30)
1-14. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75-2. Menuet (04:15)
1-15. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75-3. Clair de lune (05:30)
1-16. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75-4. Passepied (03:55)
1-17. Seong-Jin Cho – Debussy: L’isle joyeuse, L. 106 (06:15)

Personnel:
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Myung-Whun Chung, piano
Staatskapelle Dresden
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

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