The fifth volume in this much admired series offers another fascinating anthology.Of the 17 pianists, the two oldest are the long-lived Cornelia Rider-Possart(1865-1963) who can be heard on an exceptionally rare, non-commercial 1926Berlin disc, in the first recording of Scriabin’s Etude, Op. 42, No. 3, and EtelkaFreund (1879-1977), a pupil of Brahms, who performs one of his Intermezzos in1952. Jean Melville, a distant relation of Arthur Sullivan, plays Valse arabesquein London in 1923, whilst Johana Harris who, together with her husband, theAmerican composer Roy Harris, enjoyed a highly successful career, can be heardplaying Frescobaldi in Los Angeles.