Yuja Wang / Reviews

It is not often that the main attraction of a concert is a 30-minute new work, but such is the star power of its dedicatee, the phenomenally gifted Yuja Wang, that everyone was eager to listen with all due attention to Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto no. 3. Two separate cadenzas – part of the few segments of the concerto where the piano is not forced to compete with a noisy orchestra – made clearer the composer’s ease in juggling with different rhythmic and harmonic combinations. They also allowed listeners to marvel once again at Wang’s ability to convey a poetic quality to passages that many pianists might just find too difficult to play.