At least Vilde Frang has a nice easy name to write about -- unlike Patricia Kopatchinskaja or Liza Ferschtman. On her new recital disc, the young Norwegian reveals an impeccable technique and an exemplary sensitivity. That being said, I felt that her sensitivity to the moment, allied to her extremes of dynamics, did make much of the music on the CD far too episodic. The Strauss sonata missed the ecstatic fervour brought to it by violinists such as Heifetz and Repin, and Bartok's sonata for solo violin featured a string of linked episodes rather than a coherent whole. One of the great gifts of Wilhelm Furtwängler in Bruckner and Wagner was his ability to meld passages and movements into a coherent whole work. Ms Frang's extremes of dynamics meant that I spent much of the time in the Bartok slow movement straining my ears to hear whether she was playing, and if so, what. And in the finale, it was a relief when the mute came off and she played senza sordino.