Han Chen's latest recording features Florence Price's Piano Concerto. This highly anticipated album showcases Chen's commitment to expanding the classical repertoire and bringing underrepresented composers to the forefront.
Polyglot is a quietly ambitious album that reimagines the classical canon through a lens of cultural plurality. Anchored by pianist Han Chen's sensitive, clear-eyed playing, the collection moves fluidly between contemporary works—many by Puerto Rican composers—and Brahms, allowing each piece to speak in its own distinct language while remaining in conversation with the whole.
György Ligeti's Études redefined the piano's tonal possibilities and are considered one of his major creative achievements. Han Chen draws on an equal affinity with Romantic and contemporary repertoire to bring us a survey of Ligeti's Études which stands among the best.
Composer, conductor and pianist Thomas Adès has been described by The New York Times as 'among the most accomplished all-round musicians of his generation'. His Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face reflects the glamour of the opera's subject in the grand manner of Liszt or Busoni.
Anton Rubinstein was the equal of Liszt as a pianist and a technically gifted composer. Although occasionally derivative, the first two sonatas are impressively bravura and passionate works which pianist Han Chen approaches as if reading a 19th-century Russian novel, digging down to the very essence of the human soul.
Released on Naxos Records, this album features Liszt's virtuosic opera transcriptions, demonstrating Chen's technical mastery and interpretive insight.