{"id":81221,"date":"2021-11-19T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=ac_pitmancd&#038;p=81221"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:12:22","slug":"berlin-based-seong-jin-cho-returns-to-chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/berlin-based-seong-jin-cho-returns-to-chopin\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Berlin-based Seong-Jin Cho Returns to Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pitman, All Classical Portland\u2019s Director of Music and Programming, interviews pianist Seong-Jin Cho about the sixth and latest album. Returning to the music of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin with Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Cho\u2019s CD was recorded in April of 2021, in Hamburg and London. Seong-Jin shares with John the process, and the special challenges, of recording in a studio with an orchestra during the pandemic and offers his insight into the young Chopin\u2019s approach to the concerto form, as well as to the four Scherzi, which were written at various stages in the composer\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/products\/chopin-piano-concerto-no-2-scherzi-cho-942184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purchase the album<\/a> at ArkivMusic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pitman, All Classical Portland\u2019s Director of Music and Programming, interviews pianist Seong-Jin Cho about the sixth and latest album. Returning to the music of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin with Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Cho\u2019s CD was recorded in April of 2021, in Hamburg and London. Seong-Jin shares with John the process, and the special challenges, &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":81276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:37:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110013,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81221\/revisions\/110013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}