Pavel Kolesnikov’s rapturously received collection of Chopin Mazurkas in 2016 revealed the young Russian virtuoso as a pianist clearly, concisely, communicatively at one with the composer’s elusive, enigmatic amalgam of confessional intimacy, rhetorical bravado and piercing poetry.

This new compendium of Impromptus, Waltzes and Mazurkas takes full advantage of the greater freedom of movement signalled in that earlier disc and inked in by last year’s bravura digressions into Louis Couperin’s Baroque brilliance (reviewed August 10, 2018) and the more muscular expressivity of an admirably immediate Beethoven...