It's quite an achievement to make the effervescent Mendelssohn violin concerto sound pedestrian but Rachel Barton Pine's leaden phrasing and colourless playing manages very efficiently. The sweet central andante is rushed through in indecent haste, with hapless Christoph-Mathias Mueller and his players racing to keep up, and while things improve in the fizzing finale it's not enough to save a lacklustre performance. The curious Schumann concerto (suppressed until the Nazi's resurrected it as an example of German superiority) only really comes to life with Barton Pine's graceful handling of the tripping finale but she really seems most at home in the Beethoven Romances in G major and F major, which at least have the benefit of brevity.