Josef Suk is more famous for his string Serenade and Asrael Symphony – and for being Dvorˇák’s student, and eventual son-in-law – than for his piano writing, but there have nonetheless been a number of pianists who’ve recorded his solo piano repertoire, with Niel Immelman’s four-volume set on Meridian the first to cover the complete works.

British pianist Jonathan Plowright has recorded four sets here, two from the first half of the 1890s, during and immediately after Suk’s studies at the Prague Conservatory, the Opus 7 Piano Pieces and Opus 10 Moods, and two from 1902, Spring and Summer Impressions.

Plowright gives rich, imaginative performances that bely the lightness implied by the titles of Suk’s...