Cross-posted from the WAYL2 thread:

Disc one: 3 Suites for solo violin.
Donald Tovey, the Scottish composer, pianist, musicologist, editor etc was composer Julius Röntgen’s best friend. It’s on Tovey’s advice that Röntgen embarked on writing solo violin works ‘in the style of Bach’ in the period 1921-1930. Tovey would provide themes and Röntgen wrote preludes, bourrées, sarabandes, fugues, arranging them in suites (3). To complete the corpus he also wrote 3 sonatas, again in the Bach style.
Anyone with a liking for solo violin works will dip into this set as in a candy jar. Röntgen’s suites are more tuneful than comparable works by Reger, while less overtly original and fantastical than Ysaÿes’s contemporaneous works for solo violin. I didn’t know of violinist Oliver Kipp, but on the evidence of his work here he is an excellent technician and a fine musician. He studied under Thomas Brandis (longtime concertmaster of the BP) and currently leads the violin section of the NDR Radiophilharmonie.
Perfectly natural sound, with good presence and hall ambience. Produced in 2015, this extremely fine set is warmly recommended. The other two discs are devoted to solo cello works and duets for violin and cello.