"I took the telescope and looked out at the channel, first right, then left and then at the cruiser which was moored in the bay, " Ignacy Skowron remembered.
Individual sets are being issued in batches until the summer, and the list of 72 pianists amounts to a pantheon of virtuosos, stretching from Ignacy Paderewski (born 1860) to the likes of Mr Pollini and Mr Kissin.