The young Australian violinist has now won two of the world’s biggest performance prizes, making him hot property. His debut for Sony, featuring music by Bach, Tartini, Franck and Wieniawski, struck me at first as being very much about showing off Chen’s versatility, so I was surprised by how coherent the program felt on listening – each work defined by a certain kind of passionate energy, the production of which seems to be one of Chen’s particular strengths. The Tartini is appropriately furious. The Franck sonata is a truly great version and calls for the kind of drama Chen delivers – as does the Wieniawski, a personal favourite of Chen’s, and evidently so.

Evan Meagher is from Readings Hawthorn.