At 90, Scottish-born, US-domiciled since 1972 Thea Musgrave is one of the UK’s most senior musicians, a composer whose intriguing and skilful body of work still seems criminally underrepresented in our concert halls. This Lyrita release will hopefully aid her cause, presenting three of her finest scores, each of which deserves more regular airings.

In Phoenix Rising, a tattoo of drums underpins music of tremendous energy, the percussion driving a series of colourful climaxes. In Musgrave’s battle of light against darkness, the timpani is the foe with the horn, at first off stage, portraying the mythical bird that will ultimately rise from the ashes. The four percussionists surround the performance space, a device not really effective here on disc....