Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster present a treasure-trove of lesser-known French and Belgian repertoire spanning a forty-year period, from 1892 to 1932. A number of unifying threads run through the program, perhaps the most significant of which is the influence of a composer whose music is not heard here at all: César Franck. Franck taught and championed Guillaume Lekeu and Mel Bonis; and Bonis in turn taught Charlotte Sohy, whose principal composition teacher was Vincent d’Indy, one of Franck’s most devoted acolytes. Despite Franck’s background influence on the album, the artists decided against including his Violin Sonata in favor of the work by his fellow Belgian Lekeu, much more rarely recorded, and hardly ever heard in the concert hall. A number of shorter works surround this sonata including Charlotte Sohy’s Thème varié, three works by Mel Bonis, two Élégies by Saint-Saëns, Messiaen’s Thème et variations, and the world premiere of the haunting Nocturne by Elsa Barraine, Messiaen’s contemporary and lifelong friend.