The Handel Project: Handel - Suites & Brahms - Variations

The Handel Project: Handel - Suites & Brahms - Variations

2023

Handel’s keyboard suites were written for the harpsichord, but transfer convincingly to a modern piano in these crisply articulated performances by the South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho. Playing three of his favourite suites, Cho distils a moving poetry in the opening movement of the Suite in F major. Both the “Allegro” which follows and the final-movement fugue dance irresistibly with the joy and vitality Cho celebrates in Handel’s music. Brahms admired it too, and Cho brings a glinting technical brilliance and insight to the composer’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. This 30-minute piece has heavyweight moments, but it’s the exuberance and delight Brahms found in Handel which Cho is particularly good at tracing.

I. Adagio

2:36

II. Allegro

2:17

III. Adagio

1:36

IV. Allegro

2:09

I. Prélude

2:16

II. Allegro

2:28

III. Allemande

3:04

IV. Courante

1:40

V. Gigue

2:00

I. Prélude

2:09

II. Allemande

4:33

III. Courante

1:42

IV. Air & 5 Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith"

3:34

Aria

0:49

Var. 1

0:47

Var. 2 (Animato)

0:41

Var. 3 (Dolce)

0:44

Var. 4 (Risoluto)

0:49

Var. 5 (Espressivo)

0:56

Var. 6

0:55

Var. 7 (Con vivacitá)

0:37

Var. 8

0:35

Var. 9 (Poco sostenuto)

1:17

Var. 10 (Energico)

0:35

Var. 11 (Dolce)

0:47

Var. 12 (Soave)

0:49

Var. 13 (Largamente, ma non più)

1:25

Var. 14 (Sciolto)

0:37

Var. 15

0:43

Var. 16 (Piano ma marcato)

0:30

Var. 17 (Più mosso)

0:29

Var. 18 (Grazioso)

0:50

Var. 19 (Leggiero e vivace)

1:06

Var. 20 (Legato)

1:22

Var. 21 (Dolce)

0:50

Var. 22

1:04

Var. 23 (Vivace e staccato)

0:32

Var. 24

0:33

Var. 25

0:37

Fugue

5:08

III. Sarabande

2:36

IV. Minuet (Arr. Kempff for Piano)

4:17

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Earl Wild

Composer
Johannes Brahms

Composer
Seong-Jin Cho

Piano
Neuromancer

Composer

Rainer Maillard

Producer
Rainer Maillard

Mixing Engineer
Juan Moreno

Mixing Engineer