The Guardian,
By Seth Colter Walls,
“Anyone in town with a broad affection for modern art should want to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen – the only conductor-composer seen fit by Cupertino to star in iPad adverts – meet up with the explosive piano virtuoso Yuja Wang in Olivier Messiaen’s maximalist Turangalîla-symphonie … After Wang’s bravura execution of the introduction’s piano cadenza, Salonen and the orchestra produced tutti chords that were sufficiently powerful … Wang in particular dazzled during the long, mostly restrained sixth movement – sounding pinging and bell-like, then dry and mechanical, then lyrically swooning in quick succession. The contrast with the rhythmically booming pianism required by the following movement was energizing.”