Venezuelan-born French composer Reynaldo Hahn is best known for his songs, and there’s certainly a finely-crafted lyricism to this first-of-its-kind survey of his works for two pianos and piano four-hands on Melba, especially under the sensitive ministrations of pianists Mattia Ometto and Leslie Howard.

A fellow student of Ravel’s, Hahn cut his teeth playing and singing in the salons of Fin-de-Siècle Paris. While nostalgia for this era infuses the 12 waltzes of Le ruban denoué (the untied ribbon) for two pianos, ominous currents whorl beneath the charming surface of music composed to soothe Hahn’s comrades on the Western Front. The darkly beautiful Danse de l’amour du chagrin (dance of love and sorrow) is a highlight, and typifies the characters at work. In a similar vein, Pour bercer un convalescent (for rocking the cradle of a convalescent) has a sad, lilting sweetness. The first disc comes...