PR blurbs can be revealing. The cover states that the violinist Ji Young Lim is ‘accompanied by fellow South Korean Dong Hyek Lim’. No she isn’t; both Mozart and Beethoven were explicit that these sonatas were for keyboard accompanied by violin. But if the idea that either player in a duo sonata has a secondary role harks back to an earlier generation, so too, you might think, do these performances: played with a distinctly creative approach to dynamics and a glossy, generous vibrato. Period style? Not here.

Instead, these are hugely enjoyable performances on their own unashamedly romantic terms. The minuet finale of K304 becomes a tragic slow movement, complete with halting rubato and drooping portamentos, and the opening bars of the Andantino of K378 have a delicacy and fragrance more suited to Chopin: Mozart as Dresden figurine. And why not, when it sounds as sincere and spontaneous as this? There’s nothing contrived about this playing. Ji Young Lim has a rather affecting way of moulding her tone over a phrase and Dong Hyek Lim’s playing is bright and lively. They’re both clearly on the same page; occasionally relentless (the finale of K301 is slightly stiff) but fresh and urgent in each of Mozart’s first movements.

And when, with a grandiose opening chord, they launch themselves at the Beethoven, it fits like a glove. All right, not stylistically, perhaps, but there’s a directness and an ardour here that the young Beethoven would surely have endorsed. The recorded sound has just the slightest suggestion of having been artificially weighted towards the violin. But everything about this disc is a little bit over the top and, I have to say, I enjoyed it a lot.