MAURICE RAVEL

“I’ve always been fascinated by the ideas, colours and emotions to be found in Ravel’s music,  
and it has been an honour to record his complete solo piano works and concertos” 

Seong-Jin Cho 

Having loved Ravel since childhood and immersed himself in the composer while studying at the Paris Conservatoire, the Young Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho has chosen to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2025 by recording his complete solo piano music and the two piano concertos, where he collaborates with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. One of today’s most elegant and accomplished pianists, ten years on from his Chopin Competition victory, Cho will release the first of the two albums, Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works, on 17 January 2025 (digitally and on two CDs). Seong-Jin Cho has always felt a close connection with the French piano literature and found himself fully discussing the challenges of the solo works, pointing to the composer’s orchestral sound and meticulous attention to detail. “Ravel really knew what he wanted, so I try to follow his specific markings,” he says.   

Listen to a further pre-release track, the fast and energetic, yet moving and soft first movement of Ravel’s Sonatine, M. 40.