Jennifer Pike may only be 24 but she’s already an established figure on the music scene and, together with her regular pianist Tom Poster, she has been releasing interestingly programmed discs. This latest one is no exception, consisting of pieces by Janáček, Dvořák and Suk, some real rarities.

She is particularly alluring in Dvořák’s Romantic Pieces, by turns intimate, consoling and confiding – and always beautifully controlled. In the final Larghetto, for instance, she really draws you into her world, with Poster minutely reactive and matching well her haloed sound.

The Suk, too, is compelling, even though she’s up against competition from the composer himself. Her quieter playing in the Quasi ballata first piece is a particular delight, while she gives the composer himself a run for his money in the dashing Appassionato, though few could match the way he ‘vocalises’ the differing phrases. The third, a little faster than Suk, is tenderly conversational in tone; and though Suk is even more unbuttoned in the final Burleska, Pike and Poster make a great double-act. These are perhaps the highlight of the disc.

As for the Janáček Sonata, eminently musical though it is, its acerbic sound world is brought out to a greater degree by Faust and, even more, Repin, with Lugansky a superb accomplice. Pike’s second movement breathes an altogether healthier, lest angsty air than Repin’s. The early Janáček miniatures are little more than curiosities, for they date from before he developed his true voice, though the Allegro, originally intended to be part of the Sonata, is a fascinating addendum. A fine recording and informative notes complete an enticing disc.