Work: Piano Sonata no. 6, Op.62

Pounding the 26 miles from Greenwich Park to The Mall wasn't the only marathon in London today. At Milton Court, Peter Donohoe ran his own marathon, tackling all ten sonatas by Alexander Scriabin.

Garrick Ohlsson’s ‘Skryabin Focus’ at Wigmore Hall opened with a concert on the composer's birthday which revealed the complex and myriad aspects of Scriabin's creative impulse and his deep affinity for the piano

Yuja Wang is all about rhythm. It would be easy to write about how her playing doesn’t have the profundity or architectural sense of more mature artists, but that would be to miss her considerable achievements – and with a young artist, it’s what’s achieved that should count.