After Valerie Tryon’s Chopin, Liszt and Ravel marathons for APR comes a mixed recital where her immaculate virtues are displayed for the most part to enviable advantage. Her poise in Mozart is unfaltering, her characteristic grace and fluency complemented by the most natural musicianship (and never more so than in the central Andante cantabile).

Schubert’s A major Sonata, D664, once described as the musical equivalent of the smiling lights and colours of a spring day, again finds this remarkable pianist at her very best. Nothing is overtly dramatic or given with special pleading. Always she allows the composer his own voice so that nothing obtrudes between creator and re-creator. The Andante is hauntingly reflective and in the dancing finale note follows note like so many glowing, perfectly graduated pearls. Here is the finest translucency and an unerring sense of musical perspective.

In the Schumann Fantaisie there are no flashes of summer lightning (á la Argerich) or the sort of Olympian mastery that makes Pollini’s recording so awe-inspiring. But if others have bigger guns to fire there is no mistaking Tryon’s graciousness and overall quality. The completion of her Debussy cycle (started on another label) and the issue here of her much-praised disc of the Chopin Ballades and Scherzos would be more than welcome. APR’s sound is as warm and direct as the playing.