Indeed, when I looked over my earlier blog posts, I saw that I largely enjoyed these medalists’ solo rounds. Yet unlike in 2022 – when Yunchan Lim’s extraordinary Semi-final performance of Liszt’s ...

Aristo Sham took command of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2 and ran away with it, infusing the gnarly solo part with purpose, direction, structural awareness, technical finesse and mature artistry' ...