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The teenage pianist Yunchan Lim has gotten reams (or gigabytes) of good press, yet listeners may have any number of reasons for being skeptical. Lim's K-pop looks are not everyone's cup of tea, and on his debut album, while showing plenty of promise, he seemed oddly reluctant to take the spotlight. Any doubts, however, will be put to rest by Lim's performances, recorded here, in his winning career in the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. They are astonishing. Competition performances often have a well-practiced, safe quality, but not this one; Lim goes out onto the edge and stays there. Sample at will, and note that he tends to give quieter passages an almost harsh quality; his method is to raise the tension, which he knows he can dissipate in brilliant, tumultuous passagework. What's more, he accomplishes these utterly distinctive performances in Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, often-recorded works that are commonplace in the competition repertory. The title of this collection is slightly mistranslated from its French original, Études d'exécution transcendante ("Etudes of Transcendental Execution"). The original points up the degree to which, for all the storm and thunder, these are true etudes, posing specific technical problems for the player, and Lim sets the rigorous and the fantastic elements against each other brilliantly. One need only add that Steinway's live sound is superlative. Everything one has heard is true, and this album made classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2022.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Franz Liszt, Composer - Tom Lazarus, MasteringEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jon Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Yunchan Lim, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Feidner, ExecutiveProducer - Vivian Chiu, ExecutiveProducer - Jacques Marquis, Producer
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
Album review
The teenage pianist Yunchan Lim has gotten reams (or gigabytes) of good press, yet listeners may have any number of reasons for being skeptical. Lim's K-pop looks are not everyone's cup of tea, and on his debut album, while showing plenty of promise, he seemed oddly reluctant to take the spotlight. Any doubts, however, will be put to rest by Lim's performances, recorded here, in his winning career in the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. They are astonishing. Competition performances often have a well-practiced, safe quality, but not this one; Lim goes out onto the edge and stays there. Sample at will, and note that he tends to give quieter passages an almost harsh quality; his method is to raise the tension, which he knows he can dissipate in brilliant, tumultuous passagework. What's more, he accomplishes these utterly distinctive performances in Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, often-recorded works that are commonplace in the competition repertory. The title of this collection is slightly mistranslated from its French original, Études d'exécution transcendante ("Etudes of Transcendental Execution"). The original points up the degree to which, for all the storm and thunder, these are true etudes, posing specific technical problems for the player, and Lim sets the rigorous and the fantastic elements against each other brilliantly. One need only add that Steinway's live sound is superlative. Everything one has heard is true, and this album made classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2022.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:44
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Yunchan Lim
- Composer: Franz Liszt
- Label: Steinway and Sons
- Genre: Classical
2023 Steinway and Sons 2023 Steinway and Sons
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