Rach 4 redefined: Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim set a new benchmark in Seoul

Yunchan Lim and the Orchestre de Paris

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris

By SangKwon Lee, 13 June 2025

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“as if tracing a new constellation in the night sky”

Reviewed at Seoul Arts Center: Concert Hall, Seoul on 11 June 2025

Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin

Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 4 in G minor, Op.40

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Yunchan Lim, Piano

Orchestre de Paris

Klaus Mäkelä, Conductor

Orchestre de Paris and Mäkelä wow Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

Max Lima, 18th March

Under its Music Director Klaus Mäkelä, the French orchestra returns to the Concertgebouw for an exhilarating concert with pianist Anna Vinnitskaya.

****1

New season, new horizons: Salonen opens the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd September

Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris opened the Elbphilharmonie season with a vivid journey from Strauss’s dramatic energy, through a reflective new Horn Concerto, to Sibelius’s luminous, precise grandeur.

****1

Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris paint vivid pictures in Vienna

Mark Pullinger, 23rd February

Maurice Ravel the orchestrator takes centre stage at the Musikverein in an evening of descriptive aural painting.

****1

Khatia Buniatishvili in search of her lost fingers

Alain Lompech, 30th October

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto turns out to be a shipwreck for the Georgian pianist, despite an admirable Orchestre de Paris and conductor (Kirill Karabits).

*1111

Fresh and flamboyant: Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris at the Proms

Mark Thomas, 3rd September

Klaus Mäkelä presents fresh and dynamic takes on French masterpieces from Debussy and Berlioz, the Orchestre de Paris providing colour and vigour in Stravinsky.

*****

The Orchestre de Paris dazzles in Boston

Kevin Wells, 17th March

Yunchan Lim joins Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris for a Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto full of dynamic contrast.

****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.

Rach 4 redefined: Klaus Mäkelä and Yunchan Lim set a new benchmark at Seoul Arts Center