Olli Mustonen is one of the most remarkable pianists of our day. The 30-year-old Finn is known for his eclectic repertoire and composing - and for playing unlike anybody else.
His Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic had Beethoven's notes and the dynamics managed - usually - to encompass Beethoven's own limited directions. The speeds were also correct.
But just as Beethoven had written the work to show off the new expanded piano, so Mustonen played it as if using an electronic instrument.
It wasn't the perfection of his playing (indeed, on Sunday, he played half a dozen inaccurate notes), but that he still had the control of each note, no matter how complex the development, no matter how much velocity he put into the phrasing.
In the opening, he could go to extremes of loud and soft, he could bang down hard or play the most silken runs up the scale.
But his control, his intensity on the keyboard gave a sharpness to every phrase. The slow movement was never really relaxed, but was so perfect one felt the composer would soon spring out in front of the audience.