Nicola Benedetti is a goddess. Not because she happens to be a ringer for Sophia Loren but because of the following: BBC Young Musician Of The Year at 16 followed by a £1 million recording contract, a Classical Brit Award in 2012, a stellar international concert schedule, and a campaigning zeal for music education – for which she has been made an MBE. Needless to say, she plays like an angel.

Benedetti’s mesmerising intensity of tone and her unique gift for musical storytelling was, in a selection of film themes, as in the whole programme, simply spellbinding. As a by-the-by, she threw in a blisteringly virtuosic Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, passionate and with plenty of very un-sirenlike grit.

Joined by cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, pianist Alexei Grynyuk and others (for Benedetti keeps the very best musical company), she couldn’t have done more to communicate the sheer joy of music-making.

For Carlos Gardel’s Tango, she welcomed on stage not only the incredible Ksenija Sidorova on accordian but also her big sister Stephanie Benedetti on second violin for a performance that was as breathtaking as it was heart-warming.

Tchaikovsky’s A minor piano trio in the second half may not have actually changed lives, but it will have won many new hearts.