This is a very special live performance (on a Shigeru Kawai piano) of Liszt's Petrarch Sonnet No 104 by pianist Yunchan Lim 임윤찬, filmed at the 2024 Gramophone Classical Music Awards, in association with Presto Music.
Yunchan Lim achieved the remarkable feat of having two recordings in the final-three shortlist of the Piano category (sponsored by Kawai) this year, and won the Award for his album of Chopin’s Études on Decca. He also won our Young Artist of the Year Award (sponsored by Classeek).
The other album for which Yunchan Lim was shortlisted this year was his live recording from the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition of Liszt’s complete Études d’exécution transcendante, another remarkable recording from a truly remarkable musician. As Tim Parry said in his Awards citation: 'Yunchan’s pianism is not solely about technique: the poetry of Liszt’s slower Études, notably “Harmonies du soir”, and the highly personal imaginative touches that are a feature of his outstanding Chopin Études are hallmarks of an exploratory young artist with much to say and consummate means with which to say it.'
Explore this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2024
Yunchan Lim records exclusively for Decca Classics. To hear more click here: https://yunchanlim.lnk.to/YunchanLim
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