Great Performers
Seong-Jin Cho piano
I
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1903-05)
Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911)
Le tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
II
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année «Italie», S. 161 (1846-49)
Pilgrimages
An authentic national hero in his country, with fans following him wherever he goes, the Korean Seong-Jin Cho already shone with brilliance at his recital at the Palace of Charles V in 2021. He returns this time for a double performance, first solo, with an impressive program, in which he plays again the Ravel he already played three years ago, but completed now with the most poetic Liszt that can be imagined. In fact, there will be a tour of the different profiles of Ravel in his recital, from the classicist of the Sonatine, to the Schubertian of the Noble and Sentimental Waltzes or the recreatror of the big masters of the 18th Century French harpsichord in Le tombeau de Couperin, a piece which was also a homage to the frineds killed in the Great War. And in the second half, the seven numbers from Liszt's Second Year of Pilgrimage, the one dedicated to Italy, where he concentrates some of his most memorable compositions, thanks to the combination of lyricism, poetry and virtuosity.
