RPO/Petrenko review — Yunchan Lim outshone by Strauss
'Thank you for joining the journey,' said the note from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in my inbox the morning after. Unlike dozens at the Royal Albert Hall, I had actually finished the journey too. Many fans of South Korea's global piano star Yunchan Lim clearly decided they were too overcome by their idol's first-half performance to strap on their crampons and join Strauss's Alpine Symphony .
It was a night that felt like two concerts hoicked together. Two mountains — we had Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain as well as Strauss's Alp — flanked a performance by a 21-year-old already at the summit of the classical music world.
Despite his fame, the refreshing thing about Lim — and this seems to be baked into
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