Should you – like a certain well-known detective – have acquired a Stradivarius violin for 55 shillings and be intent on a career as a virtuoso violinist then this concert was probably not for you.

The colours and dynamics that Jack Liebeck conjured up from his lustrous Guadagnini violin would have been so off-putting that you would have thought that even at that price you had not got a bargain.

Brahms first violin sonata was effortlessly played, Martin Cousin allowing the piano part, which might otherwise dominate, to be an equal partner.

Based in part on two of Brahms songs this performance sang from first to last.

The Three Myths, Op 30 of the Polish composer Karol Symanowski are evidently a favourite of Liebeck; he played them at Loughborough University last year.

This is ideal repertoire for an artist with his range of colour, with Symanowski's highly perfumed depictions of three Greek myths wondrously varied.

At times, he appears not to let his bow touch the strings so quiet is the playing. This quiet playing is electric; yet he has more than enough power for the climaxes.

One can see why this music on record is often illustrated by Paul Klimt paintings, gold, scarlets and purples.

Tchaikovsky's Valse Scherzo might be merely salon music writ large but played with such panache by both artists it was highly relishable.

An encore of the refulgent Médiation from Thais left the capacity audience enraptured.