Bear in mind what you had been doing on the tender age of 18? In all probability not taking dwelling a gold medal from a serious piano competitors. Two years in the past, when the South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim was solely 18, he received the storied Van Cliburn Worldwide Piano Competitors. Ever since, we have been asking him to play at our Tiny Desk. Lim was the youngest ever to win the Cliburn, and one among his performances there was seen greater than 16 million occasions on Youtube.
Merely put, Lim grew to become an in a single day sensation. And it is simple to see why in these deeply thought-about performances. Although he was underneath the climate — explaining to our viewers why his voice was weak — you possibly can by no means inform by his highly effective command of each notice, making our trusty upright sound like a 9-foot grand piano.
Hear for the deliciously strummed chords in Liszt‘s Petrarca Sonetto, the place, close to the top, he rings a bell of two notes excessive on the keyboard and leaves them suspended in midair. Lim is widely known for his finger twisting virtuosity, however it’s this sort of poetic dynamic management that astonishes.
Tchaikovsky is a private favourite. Lim summons thunder in a stormy passage of the snack-sized Second lyrique, and follows with “October” (from the cycle The Seasons) the place he conjures shades of lambent autumn mild, taking nice care to dab and blend colours like a painter.
It is easy to fall underneath the spell of Yunchan Lim’s enjoying. And we’re fortunate, as a result of at simply age 20 Lim can be enchanting listeners for a very long time.
SET LIST
- Franz Liszt: Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104
- Piotr Tchaikovsky: Second lyrique
- Piotr Tchaikovsky: “October” (from The Seasons)
MUSICIANS
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Tom Huizenga
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Wendy Li
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Elle Mannion
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Tiny Desk Group: Joshua Bryant, Ashley Pointer, Hazel Cills
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
