A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As Bryce Morrison said of that disc: ‘From Perahia there is order and lucidity at the heart of even Chopin’s most audacious fire-storms and…you are made more aware than ever of an incomparable mix of poetry and precision.’ And that could stand for this entire set – which contains the two concertos, Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3, the Ballades, the Preludes and many shorter works – 17 quid from Presto and it’s yours!