LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, ,YUJA WANG AND GUSTAVO DUDAMEL IN EDINBURGH!

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel performed three pieces as the electrifying conclusion to their very special International Festival residency. Dudamel and the remarkable group of  musicians, that make up this extraordinary orchestra, opened the evening with Barber’s heartbreaking Adagio, during which you could hear a pin drop as the audience marvelled at the disciplined and focused playing. The concert lost some of it's magic during the diabolical, fiery and dischordinate John Adams 'Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?', which featured the astonishing talents of Chinese piano sensation Yuja Wang, who had previously performed in two magnificent International Festival concerts in 2015. Fortunately for us all, she played three encores which were simply wonderful and brought the house down! The concert ended with a stirring rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony which again showed what an amazingly talented, disciplined and focused team of musicians the Los Angeles Philharmonic are!! A simply incredible evening!!!