What an enticing programme this is. I’ve long had a serious soft spot for Debussy’s youthful Fantaisie, a work in which the composer shrugs off the last vestiges of Wagnerism to ravishing effect. Uhlig proves a compelling advocate and the winds of the accompanying orchestra seem to gain in confidence as the work progresses. The slow movement is particularly dreamily done, though you might find Bavouzet even more impish in the opening movement (and Tortelier urges compellingly translucent textures from the BBC SO). Uhlig does, though, manage the shift into the finale very subtly and his fast tempo pays dividends. Gieseking’s reading remains an important historical landmark in the rehabilitation of the Fantaisie but the orchestra does sound understandably tentative.

If the new version doesn’t display quite the piquancy of Rogé in the Poulenc Concerto, there’s still much to admire, though Duchâble is unmatched in the melting slow movement and Uhlig could arguably have made more of the fleeting moments of tenderness in the ‘Rondeau à la française’.

It’s in the Ravel that the competition becomes intense and, fine though this is, Uhlig doesn’t have the benefit of the hyper-reactive orchestras of Bavouzet and Zimerman; while he plays the solo opening of the Adagio assai with great sensitivity, Zimerman and Argerich are unmatched here and Bavouzet finds more reactivity in the finale, to superbly pearlescent effect. The über-compact Françaix Concertino is perhaps the highlight here, Uhlig and the orchestra vibrantly capturing the work’s myriad moods, culminating in a rip-roaring finale.