This is a wonderful treat…Tortelier draws a detailed, yet marvellously atmospheric performance from the BBC Philharmonic, perfectly judging the balance between moments of luxuriance and the need to keep the pace moving. In the final movement, soloists Kathryn Rudge, Alessandro Fisher and François le Roux are utterly idiomatic, while the CBSO chorus, shimmering in the numerous wordless passages, is in especially fine voice.

There’s so much Hollywood-style sheen and swagger to these performances that on first hearing I assumed I was listening to the John Wilson Orchestra. The CBSO Chorus are mightily impressive in the long Daphnis et Chloéesque final movement of the exotic Évocations, as are the three soloists – particularly baritone François Le Roux, who brings off some unexpected opera buffa-style patter with élan.

Tortelier is in his element in such music, and he consistently obtains playing of impressive refinement from the orchestra of which he used to be chief conductor, as well as bringing surging energy to the Suite’s motor rhythms.