Piano concertos, designed to please a paying audience, were part of
Mozart’s daily business. Yet he lifted the genre high above anything
that had gone before, so high that he effectively invented it in the
form we know today. His mature piano concertos – famously difficult to
bring to life in performance – stand among the supreme tests of a
performer’s powers. Seong-Jin Cho has chosen one of the most demanding
of the composer’s works for keyboard and orchestra, the Piano Concerto
in D minor K466, to launch his first Mozart recording for Deutsche
Grammophon. The Korean pianist’s latest album, which also includes the
dramatic Piano Sonata in F major K332, the early Piano Sonata in B flat
major K281, and the Fantasia in D minor K397, bears witness to a
musical love affair that began in childhood and has deepened since he
won the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw three years ago.
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