I agree with my Gramophone counterpart about the photo of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist on the cover: an open-hearted smile rather than the usual agonised/pouting/tantalisingly unattainable gaze into the middle distance.

I found Haydn’s B Minor Sonata fascinating: one of the darkest Haydn works I’ve ever heard in any genre: not tragic or lugubrious, just dark and almost demonic. Li certainly has its measure and makes it gleam like a black diamond. He’s not quite Bavouzet or Hamelin, but he has time on his side. The Funeral March of Chopin’s Second Sonata is a genuine dirge, and none the worse for that. Li seems in his element in Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of...