Although Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) composed at the piano, his output for the instrument is not extensive and is recorded infrequently. There are three concertante works, an atypical early sonata, three major compositions (one of which is an arrangement of music from the ballet score Petrushka), and a few trifles. The English pianist Peter Donohoe gives us all these in his two-disc set, omitting piano arrangements that were not done by the composer, and the piano reduction of the Circus Polka.

The romantically over-long Sonata in F Sharp Minor, completed in 1904 while Stravinsky was still a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, bears no resemblance to his later music rhythmically or harmonically. It surges in the manner of Tchaikovsky...