Artur Pizarro’s survey of Rachmaninov’s complete solo piano works is planned over seven discs – the booklet with the opening instalment covers all of them – and will take in the transcriptions as well as the original pieces. But the first pair of discs contains only major works – the Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op 42, Second Piano Sonata and the nine Etudes-Tableaux Op 39 are the best known, but the Moments Musicaux Op 16 and the Morceaux de Salon Op 10 are here as well. For Pizarro this is obviously a labour of love, and he’s a passionate, if not always ideally refined or texturally imaginative guide to this music. He opts for Rachmaninov’s 1931 revision of the Second Sonata, a bit shorter and less densely written than the original 1913 version, but still makes it a little overbearing at times. Still, as in the Corelli Variations and the Etudes-Tableaux, the enthusiasm of the playing more than compensates for the occasional moments when it all gets a bit too strident.