We are fortunate in that Hagai Shaham (and Hyperion) were interested enough in the music of Jenö Hubay to record several CDs of his music. Once again, we find we are living in a golden age when it comes to recordings; imagine hunting for Hubay's concertos during the period 1930-80.

Hubay did not write “great” music. But his music is well written for the violin and contains tunes and themes of interest. To my mind Hubay was a much better composer than his violinist compatriot, Joseph Joachim – Hubay's Variations sur un thème hongrois are so much richer than Joachim's Variations in E minor "In Ungarischer Weise".

Lovers of the violin and of violin music owe a great debt to the broad Hungarian-Czech-Bohemian-Romanian region that, together with the Russian territories and the Franco-Belgian school, have given us so many violinists and so much violin culture.