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Seong-Jin Cho – Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 “Lento Assai”

“Playing Liszt is like entering a state of ecstasy.” In his latest album, the Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho explores three peaks of the piano repertoire – Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, Schubert’s

“Wanderer” Fantasy and Berg’s Sonata Op. 1. Completed in 1853 and dedicated to Robert

Schumann, Liszt’s B minor Sonata shocked many early audiences with its symphonic scale

and revolutionary single-movement form. “It deals with life, love and death, with Mephistopheles and Faust,” Seong-Jin Cho comments. “I see these thirty minutes of music as a life cycle,

with the climax in the middle.” Since winning the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, one of the most prestigiousof all prizes for young artists, Cho has become a regular at the world’s leading concert halls.

His latest album, “The Wanderer”, follows critically acclaimed recordings of works by Mozart

and Debussy.