Prepare to be astonished. Even allowing for the huge technical standards taken for granted today, Ivan Bessonov’s verges on phenomenal. He draws a beautifully rounded sound from the Steinway used in this recording, and the maturity of his searching is remarkable for a pianist still in his late teens.

On the evidence here, this eighteen-year-old Russian pianist looks set to rival his countryman Daniil Trifonov for musical imagination, eloquence and sheer technical wizardry. His Nutcracker in particular is an interpretation to treasure: the Tarantella and Trepak are despatched with breathtaking brio, and the Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (taken at an eerily slow tempo) is more modernist miniature than lollipop in his hands.