Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
This concert is now available on Carnegie Hall+.
Performers
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
Program
ALL-RAVEL PROGRAMComplete Solo Piano Works
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately three hours, including two 20-minute intermissions. Please note that there will be no late seating before the first intermission.
At a Glance
The first concert devoted exclusively to Ravel’s music for solo piano took place in 1923 at the fashionable Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The pianist on that occasion was the composer’s teenage pupil Henriette Faure. Although the 47-year-old Ravel was present, along with le tout Paris musical, he studiously remained out of the limelight. Unlike many of his composer peers, he had not chosen to pursue a second career as a concert pianist and was charmingly self-deprecatory about his keyboard abilities. Although few in number, his works for piano solo represent a major contribution to the instrument’s repertoire and are no less influential, in their way, than Debussy’s. The baker’s dozen works on Seong-Jin Cho’s comprehensive survey span the two and a half decades from Ravel’s student days at the Paris Conservatoire to his belated emergence after World War I as France’s foremost living composer.