He now considered the time ready to set down his interpretations of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 and the four Scherzi.Īlthough designated as No 2, the Piano Concerto in F minor, Op 21, was the first to be composed. He went on to record albums dedicated to Debussy, Mozart and one titled The Wanderer, featuring works by Schubert, Berg and Liszt, each of which I had the pleasure of reviewing ( Debussy ~ Mozart ~ Wanderer). Cho signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon a year later, and his first album with the label was Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda coupled with the four Ballades. One member, the 1970 winner Garrick Ohlsson, declared him a “remarkable, complete young artist”. The jurors were taken not only by his astonishing technical command, but also by his artistic maturity. He was the first South Korean pianist to do so. In 2015 pianist Seong-Jin Cho, aged only twenty-one, took the world by storm when he clinched First Prize at the Warsaw International Chopin Competition. London, LSO St Luke’s, April 2021 (concerto) Hamburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, March 2021 (scherzos) London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda Support us financially by purchasing from
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