Some superb playing from Bridget Yee as one would expect from the class of Christopher Elton at the RAM where she is multi prize scholarship holder.

A concert organised by the indomitable Bobby Chen for his Music Lessons Marylebone Series (www.musiclessonsmarylebone.co.uk).

With her relaxed Malaysian freedom of movement allied to an intellectual control she gave superb performances of Beethoven ,Chopin and Liszt .And just to demonstrate how relaxed she really is Gershwin’s ‘I Got Rhythm’ just shot from her well oiled fingers in a scintillating display of Earl Wildian virtuosity and charm …….Chopin Mazurkas that just flowed from her fingers with elegance and beguiling flexibility as beautifully as any native of Chopin’s homeland.

A Dante Sonata demonically imperious but also heart rendingly seductive where her command of the keyboard was at times breathtaking in its audacity.
But it was the Beethoven Sonata op 109 that was played with such understanding of these last thoughts of a Universal genius.The improvised changes in the first movement were held together with real architectural understanding with a controlled freedom that was always with the undercurrent of rhythmic energy present.
The ‘Prestissimo’ was played with great clarity and impeccable musicianship always with the larger shape of three movements in mind.The simplicity and beauty she brought to the theme and variations showed her understanding and authority.The weight she brought to this most profound theme was of string quartet quality where every strand had such poignant meaning. Variations that flowed so masterly from her sensitive fingers.I have rarely heard the staccato of the second variation given such an ethereal magic sheen as it dissolved so naturally into a legato that seemed to glow with such ravishing sounds.The third variation was played with the same dynamically controlled drive as the ‘Scherzo Prestissimo’ . The counterpoints of the fourth were of poignant beauty as they lead the way forward to the miraculous fifth variation.Vibrations of sound on which floats the theme transformed as it reaches into the heights with the ‘star’ that is already in view for Beethoven at the end of a tormented existence.Played with great intensity by this young Malaysian pianist who had seen so clearly this great journey that Beethoven had described with such serenity and intensity.