Yunchan Lim’s playing is so good you think you’re dreaming ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✒️ jessicaduchen
‘A slight, unsmiling, rather otherworldly lad, Lim seems not just at one with his piano, but positively in love with it’ A star was born at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last summer, when the 18-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim became its youngest-ever winner. The buzz around him has been astounding, with more than nine million YouTube views for his Rachmaninov concerto in the final. His London debut was our chance to see what all the fuss is about.
Well, it’s real. A slight, unsmiling, rather otherworldly lad, Lim seems not just at one with his piano, but positively in love with it. His personal sound is beyond gorgeous; it’s pure, lyrical, almost vocal, while his control of clarity, texture and balance couldn’t be faulted even if one wished to try. And he is blessed with a musical intelligence and instinct that would be equally astonishing in someone twice his age.
For the Wigmore Hall, he chose an unusual programme of comparative rarities: a Dowland lute song , Bach’s Fifteen Sinfonias and an all-Beethoven second half, the Op. 33 Bagatelles and the Eroica Variations. It was a clever move. Offering war-horse sonatas could have led to unfortunate comparisons, often the fate of less fortunate prodigies. Not that Lim need worry.
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