Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires opens with excessively resonant low piano tones; but this quickly settles into a fulfilling and surprisingly cinematic rendition. After sinking into the ensemble’s expressive presentation of David Griffiths’ arrangement (based on José Bragato’s own arrangement), his version of Debussy’s Beau Soir arrived as a light whirl of sound – contrastingly spacious, despite its two-or-so-minute duration.

There’s a reliably beautiful Saint-Saëns’ The Swan, but I preferred Nicholas Marks’ Desaparecido, commissioned for this album. Cleverly, it harked back to the Piazzolla and the ensemble gave it...