<p>Wu Junlin<br />The Haydn was played with excellent technical control and effortless fluency.  Admirable shading and colour, but the music sounded a little too neatly packaged and dispatched. It needed to breathe more naturally, to unfold with a sense of poetic and vocal expression.  The performance sounded a little too ‘easy’ and lacked a sense of wonder and discovery.   Nonetheless there was a real projection of rhythmic intensity and involvement.<br />‘La leggierezza’ was an impressive achievement.  It opened with a much more convincing intensity and expressive power.  Natural rubato was allied to effortless technical control.  The busy passages could have been even more enticingly delicate at times, though an attempt was made to remain within the marked dynamic range.   Extremely impressive playing at the climax, which was extremely powerful but remained within the confines of the written dynamics.  Overall there is still much more room to explore genuine leggiero- it could be much lighter and more mesmerizingly delicate.</p><p>Prokofiev’s third sonata was realised with excellent finger work and panache. Thrilling pianism at an extraordinary high level.  It could have afforded to have been taken a little slower in order to allow all the phrases to shine and breathe- many details in the fastest section  are missed at the highest level if the piece is taken at such an extreme tempo.  There was also a need for much more leggiero and delicacy in the triplet figuration passages when the dynamic level is below mezzo forte.</p>