This collection doesn't directly reflect the conflict that was ravaging Europe in 1917, though Debussy did call his sensual Violin Sonata "an example of what may be produced by a sick man in time of war". Respighi's unashamedly romantic B minor Sonata is given stature by the way Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist Huw Watkins partner each other as full equals. Heifetz's famously mesmerising account seems one-dimensional by comparison. But while the playing of Sibelius's Five Pieces, Op 81, and Elgar's noble Sonata in E minor is always musicianly, the pieces are less strongly characterised: the Sibelius misses out on some of the salonish flavour, the Elgar sounds a little too plain and sturdy. It's the Respighi that's the real revelation. url.ie/gb48