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Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works Album ∙ Classical ∙ 2025 Seong-Jin Cho “Even before my teens, I was exposed to Ravel's music,” Seong-Jin Cho tells Apple Music Classical. “The first piece by Ravel I played, at my teacher's request, was ‘Alborada del Gracioso’ (from  Miroirs ). I was 11 or 12 years old, and previously, my repertoire had been mostly Classical or Romantic period music. Ravel was a new world for me—the writing and the musical language were totally different from Beethoven or Chopin. “It was also the most technically demanding piece that I'd ever done, so I have a very strong memory about the music. Since then, I've been learning lots of French music, including Debussy and Ravel, because I studied in Paris from 2012.” During his studies in the French capital, one Ravel work became particularly close to Cho’s heart. “The beginning of my Paris years was not so easy,” Cho remembers, “because it was my first experience of living abroad. And at that time, I l...