German father, American mother, born in Paris, naturalised British (he lived most of his life in London), Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger (1868-1943) combined the professions of banker and composer. An intriguing character – and, at a stroke, this disc more than quadruples all extant recordings of his music. Fritz Kreisler gave the British premiere of his Violin Concerto; Benno Moiseiwitsch championed the Piano Concerto heard here. D’Erlanger, as Lewis Foreman observes in his excellent booklet, clearly established a considerable musical presence in his lifetime.

The works here date from 1903 (Andante symphonique) to 1934 (Prélude romantique) but could have come from any time in the previous half-century. But if his harmonic language is conservative, d’Erlanger emerges as an extremely accomplished, agreeably undemanding composer whose orchestral pieces hover somewhere between high-class Ketèlbey and low-grade Elgar. The two cello pieces (Guy Johnston the eloquent soloist) are well worth reviving.

The Piano Concerto is the meatiest offering here with the admirable Victor Sangiorgio, increasingly the Michael Ponti of Dutton, doing the honours in splendid style. He has more than his fair share of work during the four movements. The first of these is like a mountain trek with a series of false summits, a succession of surging climaxes reminding one of Marx’s Romantic Concerto, with a pretty secondary subject that threatens to break into Liszt’s Liebestraum No 3. The Scherzo à la Litolff would have fitted on to one side of a 10in 78, while the melodic movement flows easily into the arresting finale. A superb recording (Watford Colosseum) with Johannes Wildner conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in the kind of music they do best.