Today (27th), I'm going to listen to music for a while.

Many of you have heard of it, right?

Pianist Yoon-Chan Lim plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3.

This is a video of her performance as a finalist of the Van Cliburn Competition, and she was praised for her dream performance at a recent performance in New York.

Lim Yoon-chan has been getting requests to perform this song all over the world these days.


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This is the score for this song, and it seems really hard to figure out how to hit it.

There is also a movie based on this song, and when the protagonist says that he is going to play this song, the teacher says:

"Monster", "If you don't tame it, I'll devour you"

What kind of person was Rachmaninov who wrote these songs?

He was a Romantic composer and one of the greatest pianists of his time.

He was known for his big hands.

He could hit 13 degrees with one hand, from the degree to the la, an octave higher.

Thanks to this, I was able to master complex chords and techniques more easily than others, and I wrote songs like that.

His performances are still recorded today.

But in fact, his music is easier to listen to around us than we think.

First of all, this pop song is familiar to your ears.


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First sung by American singer Eric Carmen, the song is inspired by the second movement of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2.

It came out after Rachmaninov's death, but it was accompanied by his name as a composer.

The first movement is also very famous.

As a result, it has had a lot of fans for a long time, and this song has even been ranked No. 2 in the survey of classics loved by Koreans.

If there was a music school in hell, it would be written by a student of that school.

This is one of the bad reviews of Rachmaninov's First Symphony.

He failed miserably, suffering from depression for three years, unable to write a single note.

However, after being treated by a psychiatrist, he came out of the long tunnel with the presentation of his Piano Concerto No. 1.

So this song is dedicated to him.

So much so that this story was made into a musical in our country.

But why do people love Rachmaninov's music, which is why many experts cite "healing".

It's a complex and esoteric song, and you might ask why it's healing, but Rachmaninov, who suffered family death, depression and exile as a child, has always been introverted and lonely.

That's why he wrote a great young melody that hits the heart, and when he reaches the climax of the song, he exudes a passion that seems to explode the emotions that are rooted in his chest.

[Euna Cho, pianist, professor at Kyung Hee University's Humanitas College: Once you cry, you feel an emotional catharsis, you say. Maybe when the audience listens to Rachmaninov's music immersively, that kind of emotional purification occurs...]

This year marks the 1th anniversary of Rachmaninov's birth.

Rachmaninov was an unfamiliar name compared to Beethoven or Mozart, but it feels familiar as many of Rachmaninov's music has been played both at home and abroad.

Eighty years have passed since his death, but Rachmaninov's music is constantly being revived and reborn.

(Planning: Kwon Young-in, Composition: Park Jung-hyun, Video Coverage: Yoo Dong-hyuk, Park Hyun-cheol, Bae Moon-san, Editing: Lee Seung-hee, Ha Sung-won, VJ: Oh Se-kwan, CG: Kang Kyung-rim, Kang Yoon-jung, Seo Dong-min)