Vassily Sinaisky has the floor to himself in the Colas Breugnon Overture and in The Comedians, works that require little more than liveliness and brilliance to make their best impression. They certainly get that here, aided in no small degree by excellent recorded sound (neither excessively reverberant nor unduly spot-lit, unlike some others from this source). It's good to see a major label like Chandos paying attention to this attractive music. Although Kabalevsky wasn't a major talent, he certainly was talented and his music doesn't deserve the obscurity in which it currently languishes. This disc goes a long way to making a strong case for him.