Chineke! are more than just a (first-rate) orchestra showcasing the talents of black and minority ethnic (BME) musicians – their mission also extends to championing the music of BME composers, living and from the past. This inspiring new disc fulfils both briefs with sparkling performances by six composers, four males, two women, all still living and creating.

The best-known by a distance is Belize-born Errollyn Wallen, a cultural force of nature known around the globe as one of Britain’s most vibrant creative artists. Her Concerto grosso for piano, violin, double bass and strings (2007) is a wonderful example of her freewheeling music, fusing influences from different centuries and countries, as well as from decades of her own career. It is a diverse and wide-ranging work which the trio of soloists make the most of, capped by a dancelike finale that is a real (rhythmic) gem. So, too, is the title-track, Hannah Kendall’s bracing toccata The Spark Catchers, based on Lemn Sissay’s poem and premiered at the 2017 Proms.

There are quieter, more reflective items here, too, however, notably Philip Herbert’s Elegy – In memoriam – Stephen Lawrence (1999). James Wilson’s The Green Fuse (2017) is a subtler creation, taking verses by Dylan Thomas as its starting point. Wilson represents the double-sided nature of Thomas’s meditation on the power of the natural, both the creative and destructive, in music of affecting light and dark. There is light and dark also in Daniel Kidane’s setting of extracts from Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech, strongly sung here by Roderick Williams, though its conclusion seems to my ears a touch ambivalent. Not so Julian Joseph’s lively and at times Gershwinesque Carry that Sound, which would make an ideal Proms encore. As should be expected, the sound and performances are immaculate and brilliant.