Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto...embraces the gamut of colours and technical jinks called for with what sounds like genuine relish. This is superb cello-playing and Krzysztof Urbański directs a vital and sensitive accompaniment.

Gabetta’s playing is intense and searching, less introspective than some performances in the Adagio, perhaps, but epic in scale in the outer movements, and always keenly responsive.

Highly sensitive in sound, Sol Gabetta shows vulnerable sides in Elgar’s famous concerto. The rarely performed first concerto by Martinu is played with esprit and temperament. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the batons of Sir Simon Rattle and Krzysztof Urbanski present themselves as insightful and committed partners.