#piano-music

#piano-music

The story begins in the early 19th century when concert pianists were cultural superstars. Liszt, for instance, packed out European concert halls in the same way that a modern day icon such as Taylor Swift sells out stadiums in minutes.

In 2022, at the postponed 2021 instalment, a then unknown Yunchan Lim took gold. His performance of Rachmaninov's third piano concerto is now the most-watched online version.