As in her first volume, Jennifer Pike (herself half-Polish) has chosen to anchor her survey to a substantial helping of Szymanowski, and she and pianist Petr Limonov open with a sweeping performance of the early Violin Sonata. It’s a conventional work in many ways, but a compelling one.

It’s not an icing-sugar sweetness [of tone] but rather a rich caramel, with a good hit of salt to bring out the full effect of the complex flavours of Szymanowski’s remarkably confident student sonata.

As on the first, equally delightful, instalment of Pike's survey of Polish violin music, Szymanowski accounts for the lion's share of the programme (she has great fun with the pyrotechnics of the Paganini Caprices), but the stand-out for me is Wieniawska's expansive Violin Sonata in D minor from 1914, given with the same combination of muscularity and cantabile beauty which made Pike's recording of the César Franck sonata in 2011 such a winner.