Performing on an excellent Yamaha CFX concert grand, Kolesnikov throughout relishes the colours and sonorities of the modern piano, contrasting pedalled style briseé arpeggios with brilliant detaché passages while bringing out Couperin’s counterpoint with studied elegance. For example, in the opening Suite in D Minor, an unmeasured Prelude with generously phrased trills and an urgent central fugue opens out into a profusely ornamented Allemande and Courante, a Sarabande delicate as moth’s wings, a crisp Gavotte and Canaries and a final Chaconne. However, perhaps Kolesnikov’s greatest gift is an ability to locate and articulate, in Couperin’s music, the same profundity and expressive potential he finds in that of Tchaikovsky and Chopin.