Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang return to Royal Festival Hall

Regular performance partners, they have received rave reviews for concerts such as their collaboration on Brahms’ sonatas at the Barbican in 2014.

Kavakos has performed regularly at Southbank Centre over the years, including a six-day residency as an Artist in Focus in the 2009/10 season and as a soloist with our resident orchestras the Philharmonia and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Yuja Wang has appeared often in Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series and as a soloist. The Independent commented on her most recent IPS appearance: ‘no other pianist can marshal huge fistfuls of notes at hurtling speed with such insouciant confidence.’

Programme

Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat, K.454
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.80

Interval

Bartók Rhapsody No.1 for violin & piano
R Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.18

Performers

Leonidas Kavakos violin
Yuja Wang piano