TV review: This K-drama returns classical music to a world of discipline and suffering

The Netflix K-drama casts two piano prodigies, played by Lee Jun-young and Song Kang, as rivals searching for a shared musical language.

The series returns to a familiar fictional vision of classical music: a world driven by fierce competition, the pursuit of perfection and deeply rooted hierarchies. The review notes that classical-music circles rarely appear in television and film as relaxed environments where nobody feels pressured. Reality, it adds, offers some support for that view.