YUNCHAN LIM
In just a handful of editions, Yunchan Lim has won over the Verbier Festival. A true star in his home country (on a par with some pop singers), the Korean pianist reveals all of Mozart’s humanity in this recital devoted to the music of a composer who loved to confide his secrets to the keyboard.
Programme
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major K. 282
Fantasia in C minor K. 475
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor K. 457
Interval
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major K. 331 “Alla Turca”
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor K. 310
Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major K. 545 “Sonata facile”
Yunchan Lim plays Scriabin: Piano Sonata in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 No. 2 “Sonata Fantasy”: II. Presto
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Mozart was an admirable pianist. From childhood he was recognised as a keyboard prodigy and performed as a virtuoso throughout Europe, accompanied by his father. Eighteen of his sonatas for the instrument have survived. Written between 1774 and 1789, they span almost his entire adult life: the earliest dates from when he was 18, the last was composed just two years before his death. While the Sonata No. 11 contains the celebrated Turkish March, Yunchan Lim offers two of the cycle’s most moving summits. Written the summer his mother died, the Sonata No. 8 is an extraordinary work, in which Mozart leaves behind the rules of entertainment to sing of his grief with sincerity and obstinacy. Even more so, the Sonata No. 14 is a dramatic and tragic masterpiece that many commentators regard as the jewel of the corpus. No one knows why the composer wrote such a sorrowful work; because of its resemblance to Beethoven’s sonata, it is described as Mozart’s ‘Pathétique’. Concluding a fascinating programme, Yunchan Lim performs the late Sonata No. 16, a miracle of transparency and purity.
