The great Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti was the most distinguished of a line of superb violinists taught by Jenö Hubay. Tall, courtly and courteous, he was ‘the thinking man’s virtuoso’, for whom musical line and rhythmic pulse came first and whose tone, though very beautiful, was rarely noticeable for its own sake. This disc contains much of his recorded legacy of baroque music albeit mainly in transcriptions, as was the custom in the early days of the baroque revival. Old-fashioned performances these may be, but Szigeti’s vital, vibrant playing knits everything together.