Particularly not in Finland, where we find ourselves here. Finns might also struggle to decipher some of the texts in the hands of this renowned radio choir. We don’t hear full enunciation of the vowels in Sibelius’s Rakastava or in the (mistitled) Finlandia Hymn (the first syllables of ‘koittaa’, ‘soittaa’ and ‘voittaa’ don’t curl round the diphthong as they should).

That’s it for the Sibelius – though there are plenty more rarely heard a cappella works that could have been slipped in – while more than 30 minutes of the rest of the disc is hogged by the late Einojuhani Rautavaara, which seems another wasted opportunity given how many high-quality works of a cappella music have come out of Finland over the past century. Perhaps the ensemble felt duty-bound to include Rautavaara’s Orpheus singt, as they commissioned it.

That piece is sung with the exceptional combination of clarity and weight that marks out this ensemble, while Rautavaara’s Canticum Mariae virginis underlines their tuning prowess and agility. Likewise Canción de nuestro tiempo. But despite the delicacy of texture in that piece’s third and fourth movements, there’s something else in the sound picture that sounds like low-pitched humming and grunting from Marcus Creed.

Saariaho’s Nuits, adieux is slightly weightier and more restrained here than on the highly colourful recent recording from the Norwegian Soloists Choir but the SWR singers show real personality in Jukka Linkola’s Mieliteko. I’m just not sure I can make head or tale of Linkola’s hotchpotch piece. From programming to performance to product, I expect better from this brilliant ensemble.