Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Live from the 2022 Cliburn Competition) Album ∙ Classical ∙ 2025 Yunchan Lim , Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop Here’s the performance which instantly placed Korean pianist Yunchan Lim “on the map.” In 2022, with this scintillating account of one of the most physically demanding concertos in the repertoire, the then 18-year-old became the youngest winner to date of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The opening is deceptively low-key, Lim playing its Russian Orthodox chant-like theme with a patrician calm, characteristic of Rachmaninoff’s own performances, many captured on record (and available to stream). There’s just time to admire how the Fort Worth Symphony, under the baton of Marin Alsop (herself chair of the competition jury), truly blend Rachmaninoff’s rich colors before you realize that Lim has smoothly accelerated to a speed all the more remarkable for the clear articulation of every note and phr...