Maybe people think that the age of great interpreters and great performances is over,that there are no Lippatis,Rubensteins or Paderewskis left.There are.Here is the proof.This pianist is of Polish-Hungarian ancestry and French upbringing.His Polish grandfather was part of the resistance to Nazi tyranny and died in Aushwitz.His sister Dorota is leader of a European orchestra and they often play in public together.They have recorded together and have many dates over the next season,including Wigmore Hall in May.His programmes attack any notion that music can be popularized and include large chunks of Szymanowski,Bach and his idol Beethoven.Given the choice to record whatever he wanted on this disc he typically chose two big and uncompromising works of Bach.In Dublin in March he insisted on ending his recital with the French Suite no 5.Only a great pianist could dare an audience to focus their concentration so completely at the end of a recital that he would be given the freedom not to play at them but for himself alone.That is what he did and it worked.Here on this disc it works too.My old piano teacher used to say that if you are upset,depressed or ill then listen to Bach because it will put you in touch with absoloute truth and so with healing.This Bach has no crazed mannerisms,no self-indulgence and nothing but the priviledge of hearing one of the great pianists contemplating the infinite mystery of a mind so devoted to the truth that it enters the realm of the divine.