Hagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano)Hyperion CDA 67841 (2 CDs) ****

Israeli violinist Hagai Shaham is a long-time advocate of the music of violinist and composer Joseph Achron, and this new set brings together recordings from 1996 (made for Biddulph) and 85 minutes newly set down for Hyperion. Achron was born in 1886 in what is now Lazdijai in Lithuania, and emigrated to the US in 1925, where he appeared as soloist and composer with leading orchestras. He moved into the world of Hollywood film music in the 1930s. He's best known for a handful of pieces that were taken up by the great Heifetz, with whom he shared a teacher (Leopold Auer) and for whom he also wrote a concerto. The pieces here are mostly short (57 movements over the two CDs) and, even when acknowledging 20th-century musical developments, are of a style violinists favour for encores. Shaham delivers them with a delectably light touch. iti.ms/Hf7TXq