You won’t be surprised to learn there’s nothing musically flashy or flippant here; no bumble bees flying, for instance. Instead Schiff has put each of his sonata programmes under the microscope to find motifs, moods and models that point to other canonical composers…it’s played with all the understated but insightful wisdom and natural ease we’ve come to expect

I’ve enjoyed this enormously...If you think of encores as lightweight, think again. These composers wrote many characteristic pieces that are less ambitious than full-dress sonatas but are not to be dismissed as miniatures. Shorter compositions, yes, but with long thoughts behind them.