Paul Wee, the Australian-born, London-based arbitration lawyer who is also a piano virtuoso, makes his solo debut at London’s Wigmore Hall on 15 June. Tickets will be hard to get.

Traditionally, such a prestigious debut would result in a recording contract, but Wee has experienced it the other way around. He has had a contract with BIS records since 2019, when they released his outstanding and internationally acclaimed recording of Alkan’s Concerto for Solo Piano.

Other solo recordings have followed, and now Wee is joined by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in two forgotten, technically demanding 19th-century concertos. How he balances these activities with his busy law work I have no idea, but that’s what overachievers do (much to our delight).

The Piano Concerto by Adolph von Henselt (1814-1849) was composed in 1847, and was extremely popular in its day, as was Henselt himself as a concert pianist. (He studied with Hummel.) Unfortunately, after settling in Russia in later life he failed to build on the promise of his early work. Wee’s notes make much of the composer’s influence on Rachmaninov in this,...