Seong-Jin Cho – Handel: Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: III. Allemande

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With an overwhelming talent and innate musicality, @Seong-Jin Cho has made his mark as one of the consummate talents of his generation and most distinctive artists on the current music scene. His thoughtful and poetic, assertive and tender, virtuosic and colorful playing can combine panache with purity and is driven by an impressive natural sense of balance. For his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, the sensational South Korean pianist shares his love for an often neglected corner of the keyboard repertoire: Handel’s Keyboard Suites. Each suite is brilliantly characterful and brimming with life, and Cho has selected his three absolute favorites to play in full. The artist was drawn to Handel’s keyboard suites after years of immersion in music from later periods. Having fallen in love with their wealth of musical ideas and wide-ranging melodic invention, Cho listened to recordings of the works on harpsichord, the instrument for which they were conceived, and refined his finger technique in order to give different tone colors and weight to Handel’s contrapuntal lines. He has avoided the sustaining pedal as much as possible, but modified some of the dynamic markings in order to exploit the potential of a modern piano.

Seong-Jin Cho selected a trio of pieces from the first of Handel’s two volumes of keyboard suites, originally published in London in 1720 in response to a contemporary edition of pirated copies of what the composer called keyboard “lessons”. The Korean pianist has sought as far as possible to avoid using the sustaining pedal “in order to ensure greater clarity”. On the other hand, he has altered some of the dynamics in order to exploit the possibilities of a modern piano. “I really worked on my technique a lot as I wanted to bring out all of the voices. I tried to maintain different colors in them all. And I imagined a concerto grosso. The lefthand voice, for example, could sound like a bassoon. Or a voice in the right hand could sound like a violin.”

Another lover of Handel’s Keyboard Suites was Johannes Brahms – so Cho pairs the suites with the later composer’s spectacular “Handel Variations” op. 24. Cho finds that Baroque music gives the performer a good deal of leeway. “You can use a certain amount of pedal and play these works in a very Romantic way.”

Seong-Jin Cho – Handel: Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: III. Allemande
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