Following their acclaimed Beethoven set on the Yellow Label, violinist Francesca Dego and pianist Francesca Leonardi have come up with an absolute charmer of a disc which sets Stravinsky’s neo-classical Suite Italienne against works by two composers from Italy’s Generazione dell’Ottanta. The best known of the group – all born in the 1880s, hence the name – is Respighi, whose three symphonic poems are orchestral mainstays. His Violin Sonata, which opens this program, combines French melodic charm with Germanic romantic sweep, all with distinctive Italian accents.

Less performed are the works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, best known today for the guitar works he composed for Segovia. The son of a Florentine Jewish banker, he settled in...