Anton Rubinstein Violin concerto in G, Op. 46 (2001)

"The G major Anton Rubinstein violin concerto is a fine and powerful work, quite as good as many a lesser-known Russian example in the same genre, and easily as deserving of wider currency as, say, the Taneyev Suite de Concert, which is just as rarely heard these days. Nishizaki gives a committed and polished reading, though you often feel that this is music written by a pianist who had marginally less facility when writing for the violin. Still, here's a well-schooled performance, full of agreeable touches of imagination (the Andante shows Nishizaki's fine-spun tone to particularly good effect) delivered with crisply economical urgency that makes good musical sense even of the work's plainer and less idiomatic passages. Another rarity is César Cui's charming if rather derivative Suite Concertante, again very nicely played and decently recorded, too (...) (Michael Jameson; van: http://www.arkivmusic.com)