Entitled ‘Dedication’, Roger Peltzman’s Chopin recital is made in memory of his uncle, the pianist and teacher Norbert Stern who, together with 26,000 Jews, was deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. And so it is somehow apt that all his performances are as musicianly and assured as they are clear-sighted. Remembering Chopin’s love of Bach and Mozart, Peltzman emphasises the Classical side of Chopin’s Romantic bias. Everything is given without exaggeration, without rushes of blood to the head. One thing is never stressed at the expense of another. For him the composer’s voice always comes first.

In the startling and audacious C sharp Nocturne of Op 27, he has little to do with corpses washed ashore in a moonlit Venetian lagoon (James Huneker) and his coda to the Third Scherzo is the reverse of Martha Argerich’s legendary firestorm. Such integrity is admirable even when there are elements of plain sailing (the opening pages of the F minor Fantaisie and the Fourth Ballade). In these more subdued moments, Peltzman is lucid at the expense of more characterful qualities (though his thunderous contrary-motion octaves in the Fantaisie find him letting go of his natural reserve). His sense of line and continuity are impeccable but he occasionally bypasses the finer points of Chopin’s harmonic and rhythmic piquancy (a seeming paradox but one uniquely resolved in Rubinstein’s urbane but inclusive playing).

And yet there is so much to admire in Peltzman’s integrity. He is excellently recorded and his website includes a glowing testimony from the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec. We are also told that 50 per cent of the revenue from this recording will go to the Holocaust Museum in Belgium.