Through their two voices - a radiant Keri Fuge and a towering Roderick Williams - we're drawn immediately into their intense love-affair...This snapshot, stunningly recorded, serves as a tantalising example of what it might be to go on Herrmann's entire emotionally wrought journey.

The hour-long suite from Wuthering Heights reveals Herrmann’s musical ideas without sounding fragmented, with excellent performances and sound, and Echoes is an unexpected bonus.

Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights is unlikely to be recorded complete again, still less staged, so this recording fills an important part in Herrmann’s discography, with a soundscape attuned to the terrain from which it springs.

Herrmann is known as a highly inventive orchestrator, and Sørensen thankfully leaves the original instrumentation intact: the angst-ridden opening for timpani, snarling brass and restless piccolo perfectly conjures the dark and stormy expanse of the Yorkshire moors, vividly and colourfully performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mario Venzago...the score is littered with many beautiful moments as ravishing as anything you might find in any Puccini opera.

The orchestration is astonishingly rich and nuanced, but it is, yes, also inescapably cinematic. The same goes for Echoes for Strings, beautiful and persuasive though the piece is. No matter, this accomplished recording is a deeply rewarding listen.

Played atmospherically and with top singers: soprano Keri Fuge as Cathy and baritone Roderick Williams as Heathcliff. Williams’s opening cry of “Cathy!” sets the chilling tone, with the orchestra’s brooding gusts transporting us instantly to the windswept Yorkshire moors.