Maria Stratigou completes her survey of Louise Farrenc’s complete piano music with this sixth and final volume. Keyboard writing lay at the heart of Farrenc’s output, and the programme includes one of her best-known pieces, the Air russe varié, which Robert Schumann praised for its contrapuntal rigour and refinement. Alongside it are the brilliant Souvenir des Huguenots, built on themes from Meyerbeer’s hugely popular opera Les Huguenots, and the large-scale Grandes Variations on a theme by Count Gallenberg, a showcase for Farrenc’s command of variation form.