there's little doubt that both Serebrier and his soloists, supported by warmly idiomatic playing from the Russian National Orchestra and a beautifully clear recording, make a highly persuasive case for the reappraisal of these works.

The excellent soloists here all deliver everything they can - particularly Rachel Barton Pine in the winsome Violin Concerto and the short Meditation. The most strongly characterised music falls to Alexander Romanovsky: the First of the two Piano Concertos includes a brilliant and indigenous set of variations that he delivers with evident relish.

José Serebrier plainly loves these works...the collection starts with the Violin Concerto, beautifully played by Rachel Barton Pine, with the Russian National Orchestra playing with fine clarity and attack. The purity of Pine's playing in stratospheric regions is a delight and the galloping rhythms of the finale are infectiously exhilarating...all the works have their lyrical attractions, well recorded in clean, transparent sound.

This set is a godsend...how many times do we hear the two piano concertos or the one for saxophone, let alone the Concerto Ballata for cello or the miniatures he wrote for violin, cello and horn?...True, Glazunov’s style did not change markedly with the years, but he knew precisely how to harness instruments’ individual expressive qualities.