It is a performance [of the Franck] which holds its head alongside Chung’s classic account with Radu Lupu (Decca), a comparison that also speaks volumes for the remarkable pianist of her partner on this disc, Kevin Kenner. Aided by close, but warm and natural recorded sound, there is a comforting plushness to his touch, yet the piano is still incisive in the turbulent second movement and rings out in jubilation in the final pages.

This grandiloquent new recording with Kevin Kenner is still unquestionably the work of a violinist of extraordinary powers: a ripe, dark lower register, high notes of piercing brilliance and a commanding sense of the music’s drama and sweep. Kenner, too, draws some limpid sounds from his piano…But I wouldn’t say it compels affection.