Kirill Troussov (violin), Staatskapelle Weimar/ José Serebrier Naxos 8.570435 ****

What if someone blended together a certain bulkiness from Richard Strauss, a contrapuntal baldness from Paul Hindemith, and mixed in a yearning for the pure baroque? These three works by little- known German composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85) are head-scratchingly unusual. Sometimes galumphing and portentous, they also have moments that are genuinely dainty. The Partita (1934-35) and Polonaise (1936) don't want to revisit but to relocate to world of Bach with the wisdom of the 19th century. The relentlessly contrapuntal 1953 Violin Concerto, beautifully played here by Russian violinist Kirill Troussov, is finer. It's austere, but light on its toes, with a slow movement that digs deeper than anything else on the disc, and, as HH Stuckenschmidt noted "lives at once in a world of yesteryear and tomorrow". url.ie/af6o