Opening the season is one of the great pianists of today, the Argentinian Ingrid Fliter, in a wonderfully rich and varied programme that plays to her poetic strengths. She is playing three masterpieces by Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann, the latter featured in one of his greatest works for the piano, the Symphonic Etudes.

Pavel Kolesnikov has become a huge favourite among UK audiences since he took up residence in London. Following his Wigmore Hall debut in 2014, The Telegraph gave his recital a rare five-star review and called it “one of the most memorable of such occasions London has witnessed for a while”.