Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 album review – listen to the performance that launched Yunchan Lim’s career
Yunchan Lim’s Remarkable Performance in Rachmaninov’s Concerto The 2022 Van Rivern Piano Competition took place in Fort Worth, Texas, where the latest winner really stood out. Following this, Yunchan Lim’s recital in Europe, along with his first disc from Decca featuring Chopin, captured attention. His remarkable rendition of Rachmaninov’s third concerto during both the semi-final […]
Tippett: Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 album review – the energy of the music is irrepressible | Classical music
THis first opera, A Midsummer Wedding, completed in 1952, marked a major turning point in Michael Tippett's development. The works that followed in the 1950s gradually moved away from the lyricism of opera's excesses in favor of leaner, more evocative language, and two of Tippett's best orchestral works, 1953-1955 The Piano Concerto and Symphony No. […]
Historic Polaris Dawn mission notches yet another heavenly first: Violin concerto
After taking part in the first-ever civilian spacewalk, the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first-ever violin solo in space, fittingly playing the “Star Wars” theme. After a historic jaunt outside the spacecraft with billionaire Jared Isaacman on Thursday, SpaceX engineer Sarah Gilles serenaded the crew and the world with a rendition of John Williams' […]