Sunday Piano Series: Yu Kosuge

Yu Kosuge has built a distinguished career since moving from Japan to Germany in the 1990s. Here she performs two dynamic sonatas by a youthful Mendelssohn and a heroic Beethoven. At the age of 20, Mendelssohn was yet to visit Scotland, but his fantasy sonata captures the sounds of the country’s folk music with a restless energy and a warlike finale. Beethoven’s great Waldstein Sonata has been described as a “symphony masquerading as a sonata”, its broad colours shot through with powerful energy. Contrasting these, Yu shows us the tranquil side of Christmas, with four calming pieces from Liszt’s Christmas Tree suite.

Ticket price includes tea, coffee and cake before or after the concert.