A welcome change from the standard coupling of the two concertos, this programme is a distinguished addition to the bicentennial celebrations, an all-Polish affair with the exception of its Uzbek soloist. It is salutary to be reminded that the Fantasia and Krakowiak were composed when Chopin was still a teenager (1828). The Concerto No 2 was written a year later with Concerto No 1, confusingly, following a year after that. Chopin’s orchestration, so frequently criticised and occasionally revamped by others, serves its purpose more than adequately and is handled here with workmanlike authority by Wit and his players, placed in an acoustic which borders on the roomy.

But the piano’s the thing and Nebolsin, after his superb recording of the Liszt concertos (1/09), proves himself a scintillating and persuasive Chopinist, alive to every detail and, indeed, subtly highlighting a few that are generally ignored, such as the underpinning by the left hand at 2'22" et seq in the concerto’s last movement. This Rondo is, for me, the highlight of the disc, nonchalantly fleet-fingered, beautifully phrased and conveying a real joy of shared music-making. The Fantasia and Krakowiak are no less successful, rivalling Rubinstein’s 1968 version of the latter (and in better sound) and outfacing Arrau’s overrated 1972 recording of both. Garrick Ohlsson with Kazimierz Kord and the same Warsaw orchestra currently provide the best single disc of all four of Chopin’s non-concerto piano and orchestra works but only as part of a Hyperion box-set. With any luck, Nebolsin and Wit will oblige with the other two and the Second Concerto.