Heino Eller (1887–1970) was one of the founders of the classical tradition in his native Estonia.

Yet his copious output for piano – some 200 works –is largely unknown, an omission this series of eight CDs seeks to redress.

This fifth volume contains two works of central importance: the Preludes, Book II (1920), are Eller’s highest achievement in a modernist-expressionist style, and the Bartókian 13 Pieces on Estonian Motifs (1940–41) mark his turn to the folk-like style favoured in the Soviet period.

They are joined by a group of attractive, mostly early, miniatures and a prentice set of variations in the Romantic, virtuoso tradition.