In answer to the reasonable question, ‘Who, at this late date, could have something fresh and original to say in the Chopin Nocturnes?’ this new Hyperion release persuasively answers, Stephen Hough does. In addition to the 18 pieces published during Chopin’s lifetime, included are two posthumously published works, the E minor Nocturne, Op 72 No 1, and the Lento con gran espressione in C sharp minor, and two misattributed works, the Nocturne in C minor, KK IVa/16, now thought to be the work of Charlotte de Rothschild, and the so-called Nocturne oubliée, whose composer is unknown. There is also a second reading of the E flat Nocturne of Op 9, which includes variants Chopin notated in the scores of his pupils. All are subject to Hough’s probative intellect and cultivated musicality.