Tchaikovsky Manfred and Schumann Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yunchan Lim, piano

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred

Vaulted to worldwide prominence as the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yunchan Lim returns to Symphony Hall for Robert Schumann’s lyrical, introspective Piano Concerto, written for his wife Clara, one of the most admired pianists of the 19th century. Inspired throughout his life by literary sources, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Manfred — actually a four-movement symphony — based on Lord Byron’s Gothic verse play of the same name about a nihilistic nobleman wandering the Alps in search of meaning.