Even when he took four years out to conduct instead of play, Maxim Vengerov was still spoken of as "the world's greatest violinist". His sell-out return to Wigmore Hall in April last year was as thrilling as everyone hoped. The evidence is here: opening with Bach's Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin, the Soviet-born musician combines impeccable technique with a golden, powerful tone, muscular and sturdy but lithe too, without excessive ornament. He and Itamar Golan are fearless and impetuous in Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata in A major Op 47, but always in control. Encores by Wieniawski and Brahms, full of technical wizardry, give a sense of the feverish mood of this triumphant comeback.