Richard Walthew’s A Mosaic in Ten Pieces (with Dedication) is a long name for a short work. So try this. Dive straight in on the second piece (tr 6).The orchestra gives a gentle push and Sarah-Jane Bradley’s viola begins its waltz: graceful, natural, a playful little slide here, a brief flush of vibrato there – just enough to make the phrase smile. And while Stephen Bell and the Hallé certainly never get in the way, the quizzical woodwind comments and that discreet but unmistakable light-music swing show that they’re enjoying this music every bit as much as she is.

Everything on this disc is a premiere recording (at least in these versions), and none of it, perhaps, is music to change the world – with the exception of Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Concerto, an idiomatic and sensitive orchestration by Ruth Lomon of Clarke’s superb Sonata. But everything here is played with love. Bradley makes a beautiful sound: her tone is warm but focused and she has that rare gift of making her instrument sound as if it’s on the brink of articulate speech. Bell and the Hallé are wonderfully mellow and expressive partners (never just accompanists), and Dutton’s engineers let their sound bloom.

The Clarke is the highlight: orchestrations of chamber works rarely improve on the original but anything that brings Clarke to a wider audience is worthwhile – especially when played with such poetry and ardour. However, if you’d like to discover Walthew’s quirky little suite, Harry Waldo Warner’s slightly spikier Suite in D minor or the expansive, autumnal and rather Bax-like Romance by Benjamin Dale, it’s hard to imagine more persuasive accounts.