A second CD from Svetlin Roussev is very fine (Fondamenta). A good choice of works: Grieg's third sonata for violin & piano, coupled with the rich pastures of Nikolai Medtner's third sonata. Roussev impresses with lively rhythms, well-shaded dynamics and a welcome willingness to "dig in" when the music warrants it. Well recorded, and an excellent pianist in Frédéric d'Oria-Nicolas.

Roussev's playing derives from the Moscow Conservatory, rather than from Prague, Munich or Paris. But Bulgaria, from whence he comes, has a rich violin tradition (one thinks of the Milanova sisters, for two).