Violinist Carolin Widmann's discs for ECM seem to alternate between centuries. Her fine recordings of the Schumann violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon were followed by an outstanding collection that took in Schoenberg, Zimmermann, Feldman and Xenakis. Now she has gone back to the 19th century for this equally exceptional Schubert recital with pianist Alexander Lonquich. The dominant work is the C major Fantasy D934, one of the less familiar of Schubert's late masterpieces but just as extraordinary a single-movement telescoping of musical form as the more celebrated Wanderer Fantasy for piano. The heart of the work is its central set of variations, but it's the slow introduction, which is recapitulated as the fourth of the fifth sections, that casts a shadow across the entire work. The disc is worth hearing just for the way in which Widmann colours that opening alone, reducing her tone to the slenderest thread, minimising her vibrato and gradually breathing life into the work. It's extraordinary playing, full of imagination and profound intelligence, and just as powerfully effective in the smaller-scale works, the earlier A major Sonata D574 and the Rondo in B minor D895.