<p>Lu Xingyu<br />Liszt ‘Gnomenreigen’ was played with remarkable velocity.  Much more sensitivity and care over sound quality and leggiero in particular was needed.  It was all too forceful and heavy and needed much more charm and delicacy.  It was too forceful to evoke a Gnome-like characterisation.   Extraordinary speed and dexterity in need of more musical focus to bring out the spirit of the music.</p><p>Mozart’s B flat sonata first movement was played with technical ease.  It needed more charm and transparency in terms of tone and texture in order to be stylistic and authoritative in a Mozartian sense.   Left hand figurations tended to be too heavy.  Excellent control, but now much more charm and imagination would be very welcome<br />Prokofiev Sarcasms were played with much more conviction. Excellent rhythm.  There is much more room for colour variety here too, though.  The second movement could be taken slower in order to bring out more of the grotesque characterisation.  No. 3 had a tremendous motoric drive.  Excellent articulation and strength of articulation on the fourth movement again allied with authoritative rhythm.  The personality and idiom of this uncompromising and stubbornly relentless music was extremely well captured.   In the visionary expansiveness at the end of the fourth movement more spaciousness and searching lyricism would be possible.  Control and precision in executing the contrasts was also impressive in the fifth movement, always realised with excellent rhythm.</p>