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Sa Chen – Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2008/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:27 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
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.
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Sa Chen, Gulbenkian Orchestra & Lawrence Foster – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:29 minutes | 590 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Sa Chen here gives serviceable performance (in splendid sound) of two concerto warhorses. The Pentatone label seems to have cornered the market in surround sound recordings of the great concertos, but it was perhaps inevitable that their unbroken series of definitive recordings would inevitably move down from the Parnassian slopes – as here. These performances (while eminently musical) perhaps lack that final ounce of passionate commitment to be found in so many other concerti recordings on the Pentatone label. Nevertheless, a case can be made for these readings of two thoroughly musical performances, recorded in customary Pentatone splendour. (Classical CD Choice, Barry Forshaw)
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