One of the special delights of the Seventh Chetham’s International Summer School was this recital by Vanessa Latarche. Her carefully planned programme followed her selection of Bach Preludes and Fugues with music by Mendelssohn and Chopin, both of whom accorded Bach a near-godlike status. Such perception was further enhanced by performances always suggesting an untrammelled happiness in sharing and music-making and a balance of sense and sensibility that brought everything magically to life. How generously she contrasted the uninhibited brilliance of the Third and Fifth Preludes and Fugues with the elegiac B flat minor (No 22) and C sharp minor (No 3). Voicing was clear but never pedantic or exaggerated, a quality carried into the Mendelssohn where Latarche launched the fervent opening Prelude with bold, full-toned magnificence. The fugue, too, built to a suitably resplendent climax and conciliatory close, while Chopin’s Third Ballade could hardly have closed with a greater sense of its exultancy. The performance of the G flat Waltz, added as an encore, captured all of its piquancy and the only thing missing from this short but sweet 45‑minute recital is a verbal introduction where Latarche playfully teased Murray McLachlan, the festival’s director. Here she claimed she had hoped, while resident at the school, for a mix of sunbathing and shopping, only to find herself caught up in the helter-skelter that is Chetham’s. Dunelm’s sound is close but faithful.