Yunchan Lim, Daniel Harding and the Santa Cecilia in Seoul

Yunchan Lim and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Daniel Harding conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

By SangKwon Lee, 06 December 2025

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“a fresh track across untouched powder – first footsteps, not footprints retraced”

Reviewed at Seoul Arts Center: Concert Hall, Seoul on 4 December 2025

Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): Overture

Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major

Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 2 in E minor, Op.27

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Daniel Harding, Conductor

Yunchan Lim, Piano

Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Pia Maltri, 30th October

Now Director Emeritus of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the rarely heard Mass in F minor by Anton Bruckner.

****1

Lorenzo Viotti conducts the death and rebirth of Spring in music

Alissa Balocco, 8th February

The Swiss conductor returns to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presenting a triptych of pieces by Schumann, Debussy and Zemlinsky inspired by the season of renewal.

****1

Bereft blues as the Santa Cecilia and Hrůša play at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 18th May

Lackluster Gershwin undercuts an otherwise impressive outing by Jakub Hrůša and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

****1

Kirill Gerstein: a Mozartian master with the Santa Cecilia

Alissa Balocco, 25th January

The pianist enchants the audience with Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, conducted by Leonidas Kavakos.

***11

Pappano and Levit take the Santa Cecilia on an incredible journey

Alissa Balocco, 2nd November

Levit offers impeccable Beethoven, while Pappano enchants the Rome audience with Cherubini and Sibelius.

****1

Despair, violence and lyricism from Kantorow in Évian

David Karlin, 3rd July

The French pianist gives a performance of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto to remember; Tugan Sokhiev and an inconsistent Santa Cecilia thrill in Tchaikovsky.

****1

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SangKwon Lee

SangKwon Lee is a Seoul-based classical music critic whose writing focuses on concert performances and recordings. A contributor to Gramophone and a member of the Music Critics Association of North America, he covers the classical music scene in Korea and internationally.

Winter light and vintage grain: Yunchan Lim and Daniel Harding in Seoul