If you had come to see John Lennon's widow, you would have been disappointed.

But if you had come to see her namesake, the talented cellist Julia Graham, playing the Brahms sonatas with all the romanticism, flair and intensity they deserve, then you would have been feeling quite the opposite.

This performance retained my attention throughout and I felt myself getting quite carried away with the emotion in the music, which was, after all, the whole point of Romanticism.

The performance was also enhanced by the not only charming but also very interesting introductions Julia gave to each piece.

Classical music is so often a cold affair but it need not be that way.

This concert, which was exciting musically but also engaged with the back-stories of the music, went a long way towards dispelling this convention.