10 encores at sensational Yuja Wang London recital

We’ve received wildly excited responses from Yuja Wang‘s Festival Hall recital last night.

Our man on the spot confides: ‘She played Beethoven’s Op 31/3 with impish humour, Schoenberg’s Op.25 Piano Suite marked a new departure and allowed her to show both musicianship and virtuosity. The Ligeti was out of this world. His ethereal harmonies were wonderful at the beginning of Etude No. 6 and at the end of of No. 13 her hands were at either end of the keyboard and as her hands were removed  she sustained the final chord on the pedals. It was a moment of brilliance.

‘After encore no. 4 she indicated there would be one more, but in fact thete were 6 more, including the third movement of Prokofiev’s 7th sonata and Schubert/Liszt’s Elf King.’