With six volumes of her Beethoven sonata cycle completed, Angela Hewitt turns her attention to four works spanning two decades. It starts stormily, her Fazioli piano sounding closely in your ear for the atmospheric opening to the Op. 27 Tempest, like a distant rumble of thunder before the rain pelts down. The Canadian virtuoso brings all her characteristic crisp intelligence, poetry and judgment to bear as the Allegro unfolds. Those qualities are everywhere apparent over the next hour or so.

Op. 31 No 2 is a gem, unfairly overshadowed by its opus companion the Moonlight. Hewitt in her excellent liner notes describes it as “wonderful” with its simple opening Andante...