Yunchan Lim at Carnegie Hall: unmooring musical time

Yunchan Lim

By Edward Sava-Segal, 26 April 2026

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“a finely graded palette of colour, never at the expense of line”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 24 April 2026

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 17 in D major "Gasteiner", D.850

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 2 "Sonata Fantasy" in G sharp minor, Op.19

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 3 in F sharp minor, Op.23

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 4 in F sharp major, Op.30

Rachmaninov, Vocalise, Op.34 no.14

Yunchan Lim, Piano

Schumann from the inside out: Yunchan Lim and Staatskapelle Dresden

SangKwon Lee, 1st February

Yunchan Lim seldom seeks the spotlight in a reflective, conversational account of Schumann's Piano Concerto, conducted by Myung-whun Chung.

*****

Yunchan Lim, Daniel Harding and the Santa Cecilia in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 4th December

Daniel Harding and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia choose proportion over spectacle as their Asian tour reaches Seoul.

****1

Brilliant Bartók and an Adams premiere from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Cameron Kelsall, 4th October

Yunchan Lim makes his long-awaited local debut in collaboration with his frequent partner Marin Alsop, the orchestra's newly minted Principal Guest Conductor.

***11

Gustavo Dudamel opens the New York Philharmonic season

Susan Stempleski, 11th September

Joined by pianist Yunchan Lim, the opening concert of Gustavo Dudamel’s season as the orchestra's Music and Artistic Director Designate features exhilarating performances from the American repertoire.

****1

Yunchan Lim plays a starring role in the CBSO’s Prom

Leighton Jones, 1st August

Adams, Rachmaninov and Berio are not three easy bedfellows, however Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra pull these strands together remarkably.

****1

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

SangKwon Lee, 11th June

In Yunchan Lim’s hands the score to Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto emerges as a small revelation, conspicuously succeeding where so many others have floundered.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.