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Subject: Re: Listening to Yunchan Lim
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:38:23 +0000
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 2:34:12 +0000, PPeso wrote:

> On 7/18/2024 8:36 PM, PPeso wrote:
>> Undoubtedly the most hyped new kid on the pianistic bloc, on balance
>> quite deservedly so.
>
> A little lagniappe to my own post. I just watched the recent Verbier
> recital on Medici.tv. Talking about Eusebius and Florestan... After a
> couple of Mendelssohn's songs without words the first part is an
> introspective, intimate, inward-looking, nuanced reading of
> Tchaikovsky's Seasons. Beautifully done, without the footprint of salon
> music unfortunately associated with this piece the few times it is
> actually performed (Pletnev is the exception and by far my top
> recommendation). Boy, that did not prepare me for the second part of the
> concert, Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition. There are two basic
> approaches to this piece: one can go with Richter and follow the
> original quite closely, without messing around too much with its
> black-and-white idiosyncrasies; or one can go with Horowitz and
> transcribe it as a virtuoso showcase in technicolor. Now, Lim goes
> Horowitz on steroids and transcribes the transcription adding tons of
> CGI special effects and sweating profusely in the process. This may be
> one of the most narcissistically extroverted readings of the Kartinki,
> as if Pogorelich and Lang Lang had met by night on the Bald Mountain and
> decided to go wild with Mussorgsky. As a pianistic feat this is
> mesmerizing and outstanding. As an interpretation I hated it thoroughly.
> The encore is Chopin's nocturne Op.9 No.2, which returns to the dimmed
> atmosphere of the two Mendelssohn's lieder that open the recital.

Can he do this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN0qBfSD6l8

It should be required in all piano competitions! ;-)

Cheers!