Sherri Lun with intelligence and poetic mastery ignites the Wigmore Hall
Sherri Lun making her Wigmore Hall debut with Beethoven, Szymanowski ,Scriabin and ending with her own delicate transcription of Poulenc’s ‘Les Chemins de l’Amour.’
Beginning with Beethoven’s great song of life with the Sonata op 110 played with masterly simplicity and a scrupulous attention to the composers very precise indications. Precision and purity with playing of a crystalline clarity of timeless beauty. The whispered opening played with loving care until a vibrant trill opens the magic box to Beethoven’s poignant bel canto. Rumbling bass accompanied the melody with undulating sounds of meandering urgency. An extraordinary range of dynamics with playing of poetic sensitivity. An ‘Allegro molto’ all energy and power with a rhythmic drive of pulsating vibrancy. The treacherous weaving of knotty twine was played with extraordinary authority dissolving to a whisper for the entry of the ‘Adagio’. Playing of poignant significance, the bass rising in intensity as the Aria floated on this heart beat of delicate constancy. The entry of the fugue on a wave of luxuriant sonorities was a moment of timeless wonder as was the fugue in inversion as it built to a tumultuous climax of brilliance and passionate intensity.
