The 21-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim performed Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations to a sold out crowd on April 25, 2025 at Carnegie Hall, and the evening is documented here across two slabs of vinyl and a hardback book with exclusive photos.<\/p>\n
Side A starts with the melodic and light key acrobatics of \u201cAria,\u201d which is full of grace and wonder, before \u201cVariatones I-VII,\u201d which are often swift segments that dance playfully, but can also retreat to intimate moments of beauty.<\/p>\n
\u201cVariationes XVI-XV\u201d lands on Side B. This portion highlights Lim\u2019s strong attention to tonality, where he shifts in and out of calm gestures and really complicated progressions with seemingly effortless dexterity and control.<\/p>\n
Side C brings us \u201cVariationes XVI-XXIV,\u201d which starts with a particularly distinct emotion, but it isn\u2019t long until the dancing keys are fleshed out with incredible detail and much depth.<\/p>\n
The last portion is among the best. \u201cVariationes XXV-XXX\u201d illustrates tremendous playing techniques that are lightning fast and can also be harmonic and thoughtful. \u201cAria da Capo\u201d exits, and it\u2019s a poetic and stirring conclusion to an exceptional performance.<\/p>\n
In 1955, the 22-year-old Canadian pianist Glenn Gould offered his interpretation of Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations and this similar undertaking 70 years later will likely also reach legendary status. Bach’s 300-year-old solo keyboard masterpiece is a feat for anyone to take on, and Lim handles the task with a youthful energy and emotional maturity that surpasses his age. He had been thinking of his particular work since he was eight years old, and considers it \u201ca journey of life in music.\u201d Now four albums deep on the Decca label, the world is clearly Lim\u2019s oyster and we\u2019re waiting to see what happens next. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[11192],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-47397","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-yunchan-lim","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47397"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47397"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}