Yunchan Lim 임윤찬 LAUGHS in the face of Liszt’s hardest piece (Feux follets)
Watch Yunchan’s Feux follets:
0:00 Yunchan’s miraculous Liszt
1:13 Surviving Mazeppa, facing Feux follets
2:13 Watching pianists on YouTube
3:34 Harmonic cloud over a beautiful melody
4:31 The devil bickering with a will-o’-the-wisp
6:39 Double-note tutorial
9:04 Liszt’s pre-pubescent Feux follets
11:49 Walpurgis night: Yunchan, Trifonov, Cziffra
14:39 Yunchan actually seems to be enjoying himself
15:50 Kissin’s cartoonish ghosts, Yunchan’s sinister humor
Ben Laude tells the story of Liszt’s ’Feux follets’ via Yunchan Lim’s remarkable performance from the 2022 Cliburn Competition Semifinals.
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