The music is presented chronologically, beginning with Three Fantasy Pieces (1898), written when Schnabel was a teenage student of Theodor Leschetizky…By the 1920s, Schnabel’s compositional style was undergoing radical development. His one and only Piano Sonata (1923), which opens the second disc, is monumental in scope…The Seven Piano Pieces (1947) Schnabel is at ease with atonality; in Lin’s hands the listener is, too.

Lin’s artistry is informed by a curiosity as voracious as it is insatiable. She is also a pianist of the first calibre, with a rock-solid, multivalent technique that serves a richly cultivated imagination. Who knows. She may be just the person to rescue Schnabel’s piano music from the obscurity in which it has languished, virtually since its creation.