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Lots of business to attend to here, so let’s get on it. Lim Yun-chan’s semifinal recital consists solely of all 12 of Liszt’s Transcendental Études. Some of them are really good, like his stately rendition of Paysage and his economic takes on Feux follets and the untitled No. 10. However, too many of them wind up
This year, the Van Cliburn has dispensed with its chamber music requirement. I would have liked to see it kept with an expanded repertoire, but there’s no guarantee that all the contestants wouldn’t have chosen the same Schumann and Dvořák piano quintets as always. Instead, the players give a one-hour recital and
As I promised, I went back and listened to the first-round recitals of the two second-rounders that I missed, and I found something to like in both of them. In the case of Marcel Tadokoro, it was his pedaling of the Rameau piece that made the piano sound like an older keyboard instrument. There’s more where that came