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

180-gram double LP

The sensational South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, the best-selling winner of the International Chopin Competition, 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. 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.

1. Suite No. 2 in F major HWV 427 from 8 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, 1720

2. Suite No. 8 in F minor HWV 433 from 8 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, 1720

3. Suite No. 5 in E major HWV 430 from 8 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, 1720

4. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel in B flat major op. 24

5. Sarabande in B flat major HWV 440/3 - 3rd mvt. from Suite No. 7 in B flat major from 9 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, 1733

6. Menuetto in G minor arr. Wilhelm Kempff - in past editions treated as 4th mvt. from Suite No. 1 in B flat major HWV 434 from 9 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, 1733

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