Pianist Lim Yunchan, the youngest winner ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will release his first album under the Decca Classics record label, Universal Music Group said Wednesday.
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Soviet-era pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky, who passed away 1961, has been brought back to the spotlight in South Korea recently thanks to playlists compiled by top musicians. The pianist is on the playlists of two star Korean pianists Cho Seong-jin and Lim Yun-chan unveiled on Apple Music Classical last week. In addition to Lim and Cho, another celebrated pianist, Son Yeol-eum, and composer and music director Jun.
Lilias Sheepshanks, who has died aged 92, gave up a promising career as a concert pianist for a life of good causes as an army officer’s wife; nevertheless, she was close to many of the great musical figures of her day, including the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, who was her godfather, and the composers Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams.