Following his celebrated earlier discs of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach, 34-year-old Piotr Anderszewski turns to his greatest compatriot to give us one of the most powerful and seductive Chopin recitals to have come my way for many years. Opting for an outwardly pick ’n’ mix selection, he prefers a subtly chosen programme to complete sets of the Mazurkas, Ballades or Polonaises and in his often phenomenally acute and sensitive awareness of Chopin’s constantly shifting perspective has you reliving every bar of such incomparable music.

In the three Op 59 Mazurkas (a notably rich part of Chopin’s deeply confessional diary) he achieves a rare sense of brooding introspection, close to neurosis, with bittersweet mood swings that shift from resignation to flashes of anger. Then there is the F minor Mazurka, Op 63 No 2, taken for once at a true lento, a dark place indeed for Anderszewski, with only relative light in the central idea to lessen the mood of heart-stopping despondency. Again, in both the Ballades Anderszewski’s sharply original ideas combine with a total responsibility to the score; I can think of few instances where the letter and spirit of the composer are so flawlessly united.

Eyebrows may be raised in the A flat Polonaise (that almost defiant qualification of the editors’ Heroic subtitle) but this is no obvious celebration of triumph over adversity, rather a recreation of music which lives again in all its initial audacity. Here, in this great young pianist’s incomparable hands, and in Virgin’s excellent sound, is living proof that Chopin’s music is forever new, forever revelatory.