For many years, when it was heard at all, Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto was played in the edition by Alexander Siloti that was published after the composer’s death. He had made a small cut to the first movement and a much more substantial one to the central andante. In recent years, most pianists have gone back to the original, uncut version of the score, but Simon Trpčeski opts for Siloti’s abbreviated version of the slow movement, even though in a foreword to the sleeve notes he confesses there was no special musical reason for his decision. So where, in his recent recording with Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev takes more than 14 minutes for that movement, Trpčeski dispatches it in just eight, losing a lot of very beautiful music, with its violin and cello solos, as a result. It’s an enormous pity, for Trpčeski’s light, silvery touch lightens up so much of a work which, as Matsuev revealed, can become bombastic, and Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpool orchestra accompany him so attentively. Their account of the First Concerto is very fine without sweeping all before it; it’s the Second that should have been the highpoint, and there is not enough of it.