Cliburn Gold 2017 - 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Live)

At 28, Richard Goode pupil and Curtis alumnus Yekwon Sunwoo swept up the Gold Medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas with a series of performances of maturity and technical prowess. This album gathers together some of the music he played, with the highlight being a remarkably assured reading of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata. Among the more obvious competition fare, there’s a beautifully done rendition of Percy Grainger’s ravishing take on Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and shorter pieces by Schubert and Haydn.