Bruce Liu was already a decorated soloist when he won the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021, but his expressive, audience-favourite programme shot him to fame and generated a critically acclaimed live album. The Paris-born Canadian pianist’s imaginative personality shines through his work and his choice of subjects, like the exploration of French keyboard music and nature themes on his WAVES series of studio albums. And in his interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, Liu delves beneath the superficial simplicity of this suite for solo piano to accentuate its colourful soul.