Minkyu Kim – mastery exults to the glory of Liszt
Some quite extraordinary playing from Minkyu Kim. A total mastery of the keyboard, a transcendental technique that seems to know no difficulties. But above all a poet’s soul allied to an intelligence that brings to life a programme of almost unknown works of Liszt. A Campanella Fantasy that Mark Viner exclaimed was impossibly difficult.
Some very fine playing from all three contestants in the Annual Liszt competition. Some rather over cautious playing from HunJeong Huang but nevertheless with some beautiful shaping of great musicality. A finely spun Dante Sonata from Eri Yamamoto after a scintillating Rigoletto paraphrase. But it was to the beautiful unrestrained musicality of Anastasia Tionadewi that first prize was given.
