Thomas Schwan’s live recording of the complete Chopin Nocturnes is the work of a musician who has nothing to prove and everything under control. What immediately sets this cycle apart is that it feels informed by a discipline rarely associated with Chopin. One hears a mind shaped by Bach. The experience of living with the Well-Tempered Clavier  is present throughout, not as a stylistic overlay, but as an inner order. The foundation of this interpretation is sound. Schwan’s so