Like James Ehnes before him, Vadim Gluzman has now set down all Prokofiev’s major works for solo violin, albeit spread over separate releases; the Ehnes recordings arrived as a single two-disc package. The readings are nicely differentiated, so you might just need both. Where the Canadian violinist deploys his immaculate technique with discretion and favours a certain interpretative restraint, the itinerant Gluzman has more extrovert instincts as befits an Isaac Stern discovery, even taking risks with the perfect finish of his sound. For some listeners it will be sheer gain that he draws such ripe, old-world sonority from a famous violin once played by Leopold Auer. In the two concertos, the BIS sound team capture the instrument with startling fidelity in what sounds like a sizeable hall. Less happily, the orchestra is sometimes relegated to a mistier accompanimental role. Darting forwards with apparent spontaneity, Gluzman is as feisty a storyteller as any I’ve heard in the feminine, fairy-tale D major Concerto (No 1). Prokofiev’s more delicate invention is perhaps less well served. The multi-miking of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Shlomo Mintz’s once highly rated concerto pairing under Claudio Abbado might be thought intrusive today but does provide cleanly etched woodwind lines.

Elsewhere the boot is on the other foot, especially if you find the likes of Ehnes insufficiently heart-on-sleeve. Gluzman’s all-out style is ideally suited to the beefier, proto-Soviet idiom of the Second Concerto. The finale is rightly apolitical, a joyous romp for a great virtuoso. And it’s capped by a positively explosive account of the Sonata for solo violin, which certainly has you forgetting its origins as a pedagogical exercise for massed ranks of student violinists. Obtained in a German venue, the rendition has a more individualistic character than Viktoria Mullova’s recent account. Then again, you might find Gluzman’s feverish commitment and insistent dazzle becoming too much of a good thing before the end of this still rather special hybrid SACD.