“The music on this recording reflects my character. It tells the listener who I am,” writes classical guitar sensation Miloš Karadaglic, 27, in the booklet notes to The Guitar, his debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon. Indeed, the album reflects not only Montenegro-born Miloš’s love affair with the sea but the Spanish, Greek, Italian and Turkish origins of the music.

Youthful exuberance may be what first springs to mind when listening to the explosive energy of Albéniz’s Asturias, the bustling cheerfulness of the same composer’s Sevilla and the Presto movement of Domeniconi’s Koyunbaba, but there’s also a mature lyricism in those works which invite it, such as Tárrega’s Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Llobet’s El testament de n’Amelia and Granados’s exquisite Oriental.

There are also fine accounts of student favourites such as Tárrega’s Lágrima, Adelita and Capricho árabe, as well as delicate renderings of Theodorakis’s Epitáphios Nos 3 and 4. The only misstep is a cheesy beefing-up of the Spanish Romance, with the English Chamber Orchestra providing gratuitous accompaniment to a warhorse that should have been consigned to the knacker’s yard many years ago.

Miloš may well be the classical guitar world’s new pin-up boy, but the playing’s...