City of London Sinfonia conductor Richard Hickox

Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Feb 5th

"....the teenage Lukas Vondracek was the concerto soloist (in Mendelssohn's 1st Piano Concerto). He is a Czech protege of Ashkenazy, and clearly a wonderful prospect, instinctively musical, and technically faultless; there was a percussive edge to the piano sound, but that, I suspect, was more to do with the instrument than the pianist."

Andrew Clements