Australian pianist Rosemary Tuck has followed up her fine account of Carl Czerny’s ‘official’ First Piano Concerto with another disc of music by a composer so feared by piano students for his dreaded exercises that he’s acquired a reputation as little more than a musty pedagogue. Anyone who has heard his dynamic, if somewhat derivative, symphonies (try the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt on Christophorus) already knows that to be quite untrue, and Tuck, aided and abetted by the English Chamber Orchestra under the indefatigable Richard Bonynge, offers yet another exhibit to testify to his inventiveness and thematic facility.

The coup here is the Piano Concerto in D Minor, written when Czerny was a mere slip of a 20-year-old, and still in the immediate orbit of Beethoven – around this time he took on the challenge of teaching the older composer’s wayward...