Notching up her half-century has clearly not quelled the joy of discovery and sense of adventure that’s marked the career of this delightful artist. Following “Dreams”, her rewarding disc of piano music by Smetana, Kathryn Stott decided the best way in which to mark her 50th would be with dance. Sixteen composers contribute to the celebration, with most of the works relatively unfamiliar but, as Stott explains in a personal note complementing Calum MacDonald’s customarily informative booklet, all of them having close personal associations.

It seems invidious to trawl through each track one by one, for all are encore-type charmers in one way or another, the one exception being Valse triste (but then I have a blind spot about Sibelius and the piano). Worth the price of the disc alone are Dansa negra by Mozart Carmargo Guarnieri (1907-93), Lecuona’s La conga de media noche, and Old Style, the disc’s one concession to dance music by a British composer, specially written for Stott by Graham Fitkin (b1963). It juxtaposes four dance and playing styles, described by Fitkin as “spiky, disjointed, brutal”, “smoother, sweeter”, “slight samba shuffle feel” and “nimble, motoric”. It certainly gives the pianist a workout. Satie’s salon waltz Je te veux affords another unexpected find, but it’s the final selection, Chopin’s Mazurka in A minor (ironically the only dance here that one would really want to sit out), that is the most moving (and, arguably, outstanding) performance on this most enjoyable disc. Happy 50th!