BENJAMIN GODARD (1849-1895): Sonatas for Solo Violin No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20* and No. 2 in A Minor, Op. posth.*, CHRISTIAN SINDING (1856-1941): Andante (Chaconne) from Suite in D Minor, Op. 123*, FRANZ VON VECSEY (1893-1935): Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, LÉON DE SAINT-LUBIN (1805-1850): Fantaisie sur un thème de Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 46, JOSEPH JOACHIM (1831-1907): Schottische Melodie (World Premiere Recordings - *).

Description: Some additions to the small repertoire of Romantic music for solo violin. Bach's shadow hangs over Godard's two sonatas (early 1870s and no date but published the year after his death), less so in the Second than in the First. Vecsey's 1914 work is notable for its dark intensity and Saint-Lubin's for its piles of virtuosic demands while Joachim's is a two-minute transcription of a Scottish song. We get only a ten-minute Chaconne from what was a seven-movement (!) suite by Sinding from 1919 and its changeable moods and assimilation of Bach's influence into Sinding's personal late Romantic style make one wish we had the whole work. Vaughan Jones (violin).