Yunchan Lim - Liszt 12 Transcendental Etudes - Pro Pianist reacts live

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[@trifonovfan9819]

Bravissimo! An absolutely incredible accomplishment. And after this performance at the 2022 Cliburn Competition, he would be playing a consummate Rach 3 in just a few days. Perhaps the most promising young pianist since Kissin...

[@csieweng]

He said in an interview that in hindsight, he wouldn't have tried to learn these etudes if he had been younger or older than when he attempted it. He also said he regretted embarking on it because it turned out to be the hardest thing for him. He even doubted he could do it and fell into depression. His teacher Minsoo Sohn told him that he would simply have to wring a miracle out of it. He told the Cliburn interview that he chose this programme because his teacher's teacher, Russell Sherman, played it.

[@horoffra]

Ok didnt know

[@bobbarns4516]

@@horoffra Yunchan performed a very impressive Liszt Années de pèlerinage, 2nd Year "Italie", at the age of 15. You can search for it on ytube. It is incredibly mature for a 15 yo to tackle such a difficult piece.

[@baddognobiscuit2]

Yunchan, your Transcendental Etudes have somehow made me hear music differently. I have lost count of how often I have listened to them and they new to me every time

[@collinsanford4821]

I do somewhat agree with your thoughts on no11. In isolation it comes off a little rough, but in the context of all 12 I feel as if it Yunchan was making it the emotional climax of the entire set. I admire him pushing the sound to the very edge to achieve that effect.

[@baddognobiscuit2]

I can no longer listen to individual etudes. They are individually beautiful but they only seem to make sense as a whole

[@catherinejones9396]

Thank you for this.

[@guesswhatbro6595]

Great video. always interesting to see how pianists view others’ performances btw i had the same question with you, so i did some research and found out that Yunchan first studied this piece a year before the cliburn competiton, to prepare for his Liszt TE recital tour in Korea. and it’s said that it only took him 4 months to play the whole 12 etudes at this level…just wow

[@horoffra]

Thats amazing

[@steinwaydaughters]

​@@horoffrawhat's more surprising is that he was planning to prepare all 12 etudes in two months at first, since it took him 2 months to prepare the chopin op25 etudes for the other competition when he was 15. (he later said that it was a huge mistake😅 that it was one of the hardest thing he ever tried) always enjoying your videos. keep up the good work!

[@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyer]

thats not true he started to study them at fourteen

[@guesswhatbro6595]

​@@Samuri_Jack_Enjoyernah I'm pretty sure that im right. there's plenty of music journal in korea that reviewed his Liszt TE recital in 2021(before cliburn), and many of them mentioned that they were surprised that yunchan pulled this off in 4-5 months. and yunchan himself also said that he only had 5 months to prepare for the etudes in an interview.. “임윤찬이 올해 5월부터 이 곡을 처음 배웠다는 사실을 고려했을 때, 연습도 연습이지만 타고난 재능이 무서울 정도라고 느꼈습니다.”-> “Considering the fact that Yunchan started learning this piece in May, (the recital was in october), I almost felt scared by his natural talent…although he practices very hard too”

[@pebble.cloud18]

@@guesswhatbro6595 You are right. He mentioned in a magazine interview that he obtained the full series of scores at the end of May 2021. I read that article. He performed the full series on a TV program recorded 09.10.2021. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIbKiKech7qgfrssi=PKxODwj-jf6BVNv_

[@6894q]

some context: there was a one hour time limit so he was rushing at certain parts and didn’t wait that long between etudes (especially towards the end) for that reason. although he still went over anyway

[@saikalyan3966]

The couch and ambience is good

[@Kraeeer7i]

Reaction content was great

[@horoffra]

🙏

[@Seenall]

More reacting content would be great! Good video

[@RhodesyYT]

Nice living room man

[@wsp912]

Is that a short throw projector? ❤

[@sparx1599]

It would be cool if you did a reaction to his Rach 3 as well. Great video btw

[@ddestiny44]

Nice living room/media room!

[@neilkilleen3911]

A phenomenal young pianist. I had hoped that he would play Feux Follet Allegretto, as marked, but sadly, like just about everyone, it was way too fast. There is so much more to be heard in this piece. Arrau!!

[@horoffra]

I strongly disagree 😊

[@6894q]

I actually agree. Although I like it played both ways, I like it when people take a slower tempo and actually show what the piece has to offer, like Arrau’s or Cziffra’s recordings, which are both more than four minutes compared to the usual 3 and a half.

[@geoffgee2415]

love the idea but i honestly can’t hear anything your saying maybe subtitles?

[@geoffgee2415]

i’ll add that i am also in the kitchen cooking breakfast so it’s probably not that bad

[@skeleton.]

I feel like Yunchan Lim listened to Ovchinnikov’s recordings

[@horoffra]

I hope he listend to all of them

[@ohhauxt9747]

actually he studied his teacher’s teachers recording , russell. S his transcendental etude set. He took much inspiration from them, but i can tell the similarities between yun chan and Ovch

[@user-vy6ql5xg2d]

Is no.5 played perfect?

[@horoffra]

To me yes

[@trifonovfan9819]

It's excellent, although I prefer Kissin's. But Kissin never played all of Liszt's TE's.

[@Numberonesorabjifan]

​@@trifonovfan9819he's played all the good ones

[@baddognobiscuit2]

There is no such thing. I'm sure Listz would hear different things in different pianists' renditions and enjoy each rather than look for some idea of "perfection".

[@adrien7880]

Go to sleep 😂

[@classicallpvault8251]

I enjoy most of them but with one exception: he completely goes off the rails in regards to the programmatic nature of 'Feux Follets'. It's based on the 'Irrlicht' as used in Goethe's Faust. German folk mythology regarding the 'Irrlicht' is crystal-clear: it's the souls of children who died before they could be baptised who then linger on in a state of limbo and seek out the marshland areas in the vain hope of being baptised in the water there. People who will see them should immediately return home and according to popular belief might even be confronted with a mark of blood on their front door upon arrival. Not a light-hearted subject or is it? The imagery that this Etude is supposed to depict is one of doom and gloom. Not a cappricio reminiscent of fireflies, which is a plain wrong reading based on inserting Anglo-American folk mythology (which is certainly not what inspired Liszt) regarding swamp bioluminescence into it. Listen to Claudio Arrau's recording - who was German-educated and knew the work of Goethe inside out. This depicts the piece exactly in line with how the Irrlicht phenomenon would have been understood by Goethe and by German literary afficionados. He could have played the piece as a capriccio had he wanted to, but just didn't consider it appropriate. I am curious to your opinion on this, because I just see no reason how the work makes sense in the light of its programmatic content otherwise. Also, given that the tempo is marked as 'allegretto' I even think that purely based on the score the slower more deliberate tempo choice of Arrau makes way more sense.

[@PersonalUseChannel]

wtf dude. you are spamming again? I saw your negative comments spamming across Van Cliburn Chanel.

[@classicallpvault8251]

@@PersonalUseChannel No it's not and I never was there either. Read the definition of 'spamming' it's mass posting, automated or at the very least copy-paste work. I manually type every single letter and punctuation mark of everything I post and have adressed this issue 3 or 4 times. In each of these comments, I made it crystal-clear that the performer in question is an excellent pianist and puts plenty of musicality in his performance - but goes awry in relation to the programmatic content of the piece. It's like one were to play Mazeppa while doing the passages imitating the rocking motion of the cossack's horse legato - which might well be possible to do in a manner which sounds musical but which makes NO sense given what that passage is supposed to depict. (in that case Liszt even anticipated this possible problem - he indicated fingerings which make legato playing of the passage physically impossible) There is NOTHING negative about praising someone's skill yet pointing out a flaw in a single piece among the 12 they performed in a set! And if there's anyone who recorded well into the CD era and who played the Etudes as closely resembling how they were originally envisioned by Liszt, have been Arrau. He learned them when he was 11, from Liszt's own pupil Martin Krause. His understanding of the Etudes was entirely rooted in the 19th century German piano tradition and he was an intellectual with a deep understanding of the literary sources Liszt based his programmatic works upon, as evidenced not just by the titles but his discussion of them in countless surviving letters to publishers and colleagues. If that is falling on deaf ears with you, then why respond?

[@PersonalUseChannel]

@@classicallpvault8251 So you are denying that you were copying and pasting? Keep advertising who is better than others?

[@classicallpvault8251]

@@PersonalUseChannel Yes and you could verify that this is correct by comparing the responses involved letter by letter. It was hand-typed and rephrased although the message stayed the same each time. That doesn't meet the definition of spam. Also, I refrain from making baseless personal attacks on others. I have no ties to the classical recording industry whatsoever and am advertising nothing. It's entirely within the scope of a video website including a comment section like KZbin to discuss the merits of various recordings relative to each other. Your accusations are preposterous and you have absolutely no business making them.

[@PersonalUseChannel]

@@classicallpvault8251 Oh...so you copied and pasted those statements over and over but slightly rephrased them so that they don't look too obvious lmao. that's also spamming. copying and pasting with a little tweak also meet the requirement of spam.