Seong-Jin Cho – Handel: Menuetto in G minor (arr. Wilhelm Kempff)

Discover full concert performances and operas on STAGE , the new streaming service from Deutsche Grammophon: With an overwhelming talent and innate musicality, @Seong-Jin Cho has made his mark as one of the consummate talents of his generation and most distinctive artists on the current music scene. His thoughtful and poetic, assertive and tender, virtuosic and colorful playing can combine panache with purity and is driven by an impressive natural sense of balance. For his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, the sensational South Korean pianist 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. Cho finds that Baroque music gives the performer a good