Tianwa Yang’s admired and revelatory Sarasate series continues with a volume of captivatingly melodic compositions. Given Sarasate’s prodigious status in the violin pantheon, technical demands on the performer are often – but not universally – constant. But so too is his unfailing gift for lyricism, whether in the elegant Boléro, the balletic Sérénade andalouse or the aria-like Rêverie. The dazzling bowing difficulties in the Fantaisie-Caprice are thrilling, and so are the bird call harmonics of Los pájaros de Chile, written during a South American tour and only very recently published.

This series of Sarasate violin and piano works is unprecedented in its scope and has received hugely admiring press. There is a cross section of moods and textures and also rarities – Los pájaros de Chile is a relatively newly published work and will be unfamiliar to almost everyone.

• Sarasate: Adios montañas mias, Op. 37
• Sarasate: Airs écossais, Op. 34
• Sarasate: Boléro, Op. 30
• Sarasate: Caprice sur Mireille de Gounod, Op. 6
• Sarasate: Confidences – Romance sans paroles, Op. 7
• Sarasate: Fantaisie-Caprice
• Sarasate: Introduction et fandango, Op. 40
• Sarasate: Le Sommeil, Op. 11
• Sarasate: Les Adieux, Op. 9
• Sarasate: Los pájaros de Chile
• Sarasate: Prière et berceuse, Op. 17
• Sarasate: Rêverie, Op. 4
• Sarasate: Sérénade andalouse, Op. 28
• Sarasate: Zortzico d'Iparaguirre, Op. 39