Rich new dimensions were added to the combined musical and aesthetic experience of Glynde Place when young international prizewinner Louis Schwizgebel played Haydn, Liszt and Schubert before an ecstatic audience in the Great Hall.

The Swiss-Chinese pianist, born in 1987, has already been declared a ‘great master’ in demand from recording companies and concert management - he was heralded as a BBC New Generation star in 2013.

Schwizgebel is blessed with everything he needs to become a very great artist. He has a natural affinity with the piano and a brilliant technique: his dynamic range was enormous with sudden huge bursts of sound one minute, and a crystalline fragility the next, endowing Haydn’s Hob XVl: 50 Sonata with great subtlety and skill.

He was more than a match for the Liszt Schubert Lieder transcriptions, virtuoso warhorses which demand a cantabile line through raging storms around the keyboard.

More musically satisfying was Schubert D 845 which called forth the utmost delicacy of emotion and strength of feeling.

But because this wondrous young musician could do everything, he did, with sometimes barely a pause for breath.

Time will deepen and develop his rare gifts into a maturity worth watching.

Five stars