Romantic Piano Masters (Mariam Batsashvili)

Batsashvili is musicianly to the core

Visions – Messiaen, Enescu, Knussen & Birtwistle (Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

A gripping 20th-century traversal

Kjetil Mulelid: Who Do You Love The Most?

Like Jarrett, Brad Mehldau and Bill Evans, he has a wholly melodic approach in which every note is made to count

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol 11 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

Flawlessly recorded, Bavouzet reminds us that Haydn was the least po-faced of all composers

Walter Gieseking: Debussy – The first Columbia recordings

Schumann: Fantasie etc (Émile Naoumoff)

With Naoumoff, one is never aware of the bristling difficulties of Schumann’s score

Debussy: early and late piano pieces (Steven Osborne)

Osborne’s performances are of a superfine mastery

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)

Fedorova is undoubtedly a fine performer but her playing has a certain reticence about it

Papaïoannou, Constantinides & Levidis (Cyprien Katsaris)

Katsaris revels in the virtuosity as much as the lyricism