RPO/Petrenko review — Yunchan Lim outshone by Strauss
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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