Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninoff

Yunchan Lim returns to Marian Anderson Hall to perform Rachmaninoff’s famously demanding Third Piano Concerto, the work that helped establish his international reputation and accompanied his historic win as the youngest pianist to receive the Van Cliburn Competition’s Gold Medal. Marin Alsop conducts a program that also explores two powerful works shaped by Russian musical traditions and Philadelphia’s own classical-music history.

The concert opens with Samuel Barber’s intensely dramatic First Symphony, written when Barber was 25 and later premiered in its revised form by The Philadelphia Orchestra. Stravinsky’s Suite from *The Firebird* follows, evoking the magical creature from Russian fairy tales and the legendary Ballets Russes production for which the work was created.

When: October 29–31, 2026

Venue: Marian Anderson Hall, The Kimmel Center, 300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Featured artists: Marin Alsop, conductor; Yunchan Lim, piano

Program: Samuel Barber, *Symphony No. 1*; Igor Stravinsky, Suite from *The Firebird*; Sergei Rachmaninoff, *Piano Concerto No. 3*

Program durations: Barber’s *Symphony No. 1*, approximately 19 minutes; Stravinsky’s *The Firebird*, approximately 23 minutes; Rachmaninoff’s *Piano Concerto No. 3*, approximately 39 minutes

Run time: Approximately 2 hours, including intermission

Tickets: Price not available

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