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…Sa Chen… is more than merely a consummate technician: her playing matches virtuosity with poetry. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Oct 2008
Catalogue No: PTC5186341
Label: Pentatone
Length: 74 minutes

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Work length40:58

Album only

Sa Chen (piano)
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Lawrence Foster

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length20:40

Album only

II. Romanza: Larghetto

Track length9:57

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

III. Rondo: Vivace

Track length10:21

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length33:27

$7.00

$9.05

$12.25

Sa Chen (piano)
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Lawrence Foster

I. Maestoso

Track length14:55

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Larghetto

Track length9:36

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

III. Allegretto vivace

Track length8:56

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

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PentaTone is proud to present their first release featuring the spectacular new pianist Sa Chen. Already a star in her native China, Sa Chen has won the Leeds Piano Competition (1994) The Chopin Piano Competiton (1996) and the Van Cliburn in 2005.

This SACD comes packaged with a DVD featuring Sa Chen interviewed by James Jolly (Editor in Chief of Gramophone) and footage from the recording sessions showing one complete movement from each concerto. Sa Chen will be featured as “One To Watch” (special page in Gramophone, November issue) and also BBC Music Magazine. We are all aware that Deutsche Gramophone is releasing an album comprising exactly the same works performed by Lang Lang. Actually it is an interesting phenomenon that two young Chinese artists record the same works and we hope and expect that the media will compare both albums.

Reviews

November 2008

…Sa Chen… is more than merely a consummate technician: her playing matches virtuosity with poetry.

Described by the prestigious Emanuel Ax as a “brilliant pianist”, Sa Chen is one of the brightest performers of her generation.

January/February 2009

Possessed of exceptional talent and a grasp of Chopin’s melancholic lyricism both instinctive and thoughtful, Sa Chen is a natural in this repertoire……Chopin’s gently logical harmonies hang in the air just long enough to catch the falling arabesques, cushioning them gently before launching them off
again to explore the wistful inner reaches of delight.

December 2008

The bonus DVD includes a film of the slow movement of the First Concerto and an interview with James Jolly in which Chen comes over as a perceptive and charming personality – both characteristics can be heard in her playing. Recommended

30th November 2008

Sa Chen, born in Chongqing, is a natural for Chopin, sparklingly clear in touch and perfectly attuned to the composer’s breed of stretched, lyrical melancholy. The jewel-encrusted slow movements, the emotional core of
each work, reveal Sa’s freedom of thought which, luckily, the orchestra showed themselves well able to follow.

Chopin - Piano Concertos

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