Danacord’s annual selection of highlights from the previous year’s Husum Festival represents, on this occasion, something of a milestone. The 2016 Festival was the 30th. Its attraction is international. Devotees travel from Asia and America to this small north German town. Every seat for the week-long series of recitals is sold out months in advance yet, strangely, no one else has sought to replicate its obvious appeal.

Here, where the standard, over‑played works of the piano are verboten, connoisseurs and keyboard virgins alike mingle to hear recitals from famous names and unknowns. This selection of (necessarily) short works culled from (mainly) full-length recitals, accompanied by Peter Grove’s customarily informative booklet, is among the best of the long-running Danacord/Husum series, opening with Johann Blanchard, one of Husum’s ‘Young Explorers’, playing Chaminade’s sparkling Les sylvains (‘The Fauns’).

Severin von Eckardstein is granted four slots. You can hear why. After Fauré, Robert Casadesus and Anatoly Alexandrov, he gives us Reubke’s Scherzo in D minor, a virtuoso work and a real discovery, written shortly before the two sonatas (one each for piano and organ) for which he is best known. Then comes Louis Brassin’s realisation of the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre, as formidable as it is ingenious, and a favourite of Josef Hofmann. Von Eckardstein’s daring, flamboyant performances are sensational.

So it continues: 22 separate items from 13 different artists (including a brace of piano duos). Lack of space precludes examining each in detail but special mention must be made of Zlata Chochieva’s Liszt and Medtner, Artem Yasynskyy in two exuberant movements from Holiday Diary (Britten) and Simon Callaghan’s sparkling dispatch of Stephen Hough’s Godowskian transcription of ‘My Favourite Things’. The superb Hamburg Steinway used throughout is beautifully voiced. Pianophiles and repertoire junkies will need no further encouragement. Perhaps others, pianists and concert promoters among them, might investigate and hear what untapped treasures there are out there – if only they would listen.