This may not eclipse Baiba Skride’s Szymanowski disc of last year, but it certainly establishes the young Dutch violinist Rosanne Philippens as someone to watch. Philippens has a muscular, joined-up sound, which expands excitingly and can then recede smoothly in a moment. In the Violin Concerto No 1 she is partnered by Holland’s NJO, an orchestra of under-30s, conducted by Xian Zhang. On the remaining items, which include the three-movement Myths, her pianist is Julien Quentin, who is just as athletic and responsive. He provides playful piano cascades in La Fontaine d’Aréthuse and insistent ripples in Narcisse, in which Philippens’s languid violin line does indeed seem beguiled by its own beauty. The glassy effects and tense swoops of Dryades et Pan successfully evoke a dry, dusty summer wind, and together Philippens and Quentin career excitingly through the Tarantella. They could have stopped there: three brief pieces by Stravinsky are nicely done, but feel like filler.
