South Korean virtuoso Yeol Eum Son’s pianism is often praised for its combination of crisp articulation, grace, poetry and power – the full set, in fact – but she can also swing, as she showed both in her recording of Nikolai Kapustin’s works, and in this performance of Tchaikovsky’s blockbuster Piano Concerto No. 1.

She crouches over the keyboard more like a jazz player than a classical concert pianist, throwing back her head and kicking out a leg in the more propulsive episodes, her long black hair often obscuring her face, which is always animated with a range of expressions.

All of this makes for a great show and the listener gets swept along by the sheer energy she puts out. But there is the colour, control of structure and adventurous but judicious use of the pedal that all combine to make this an edge-of-seat experience. It also puts bums on seats and the spontaneous standing ovation she received after the final joyful cadence was bigger and louder than I have heard in a long time.