The elegance that Vieuxtemps displayed in his violin concertos is on show here, with graceful melodies, and some more showy passages. These are never gratuitous, however, and are expertly written for the instrument...In many ways the shorter works by Ysaÿe suit [Gerhardt] best of all.

[the Vieuxtemps works] certainly know their way round the cello and are characterised by strength of ideas, a supple expressiveness and a sure dramatic instrinct. So much so that it is hard to see why they have not entered the mainstream repertoire...these performances...never fail to hold one's attention.

Alban Gerhardt…brings his glowing tone and unfailing technique to bear on these scores, showing himself equally at home in the music's more sensational moments (serving up a remarkable level of detail without sacrificing a sense of line) and its more expressive passages.

Vieuxtemps seems to have been able to enter the expressive and technical world of the cello with an instinctive ease...Gerhardt plays them with affection and terrific aplomb, echoed by Vieuxtemps’s Belgian countrymen in the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under the spirited baton of the Spanish conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech.