Three cheers for this enterprising successor to Hyperion’s superb coupling (6/12) devoted to the two piano concertos by the Scottish progressive Erik Chisholm (1904‑65). Danny Driver was the dashing soloist on that earlier disc and proves just as stylish and fearlessly secure a proponent of the 1932 Dance Suite, an exuberantly inventive and urgently communicative 23-minute work for orchestra and piano in four movements, the second of which (labelled ‘Pìobaireachd’ or ‘pipe music’) comprises a darkly alluring theme and five variations that takes its cue from the form known as ùrlar in the Highland bagpipe tradition.

Even more impressive is the 1950 Violin Concerto, which, like the Second Piano Concerto before it, draws upon the Hindustani raga for its inspiration – in this instance, the Rag Vasantee and Rag Sohani associated with the coming of spring and the night respectively. (During the war years Chisholm served in India and Singapore, founding a symphony orchestra in the latter. He also formed a strong friendship with fellow composer/pianist Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.) Premiered by Szymon Goldberg and lasting just under half an hour, the concerto is a four-movement work of cogent sweep, intrepid incident and pungent character that effortlessly kindles the imagination and continues to lure me back for further hearings (lovers of, say, the Szymanowski, Bartók, Frankel or Gerhard concertos should definitely investigate).

The excellent Matthew Trusler makes light of the solo part’s technical hurdles, while Martyn Brabbins and a fired‑up BBC Scottish SO give of their considerable best both here and in the 1944 orchestrations of three of that same year’s set of 24 piano preludes (to which Chisholm gave the title From the True Edge of the Great World); No 1 (‘Ossianic lay’) makes an especially fetching centrepiece, its invention as songfully poignant as it is hauntingly evocative (listen out for some wonderfully dusky writing for solo viola).

Benefiting from impeccable production values throughout, this absorbing release deserves a hearty welcome.