A new generation of outstanding continental trumpet players is making its mark, not least in the refreshingly fluid way in which they work as soloists and chamber musicians, floating in and out of solo orchestral positions with exceptional productivity. Omar Tomasoni is principal trumpet of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and this recital (part of Channel Classics’ First Chair series with the Amsterdam orchestra) exhibits playing of such exacting brilliance that old warhorses appear reignited, surrounding an attractive trio for trumpet, saxophone and piano.

Such judicious programming, with all the fireworks either side, pivots around the sweet smouldering dialogues of Rob Goorhuis’s Canzoni, simple and touching before its final flourish. Tomasoni nonchalantly delivers Honegger’s Intrada, a work that always feels a little more trouble than it’s worth, but is here dealt a ringingly effortless card. Likewise, the equally ubiquitous Enescu Légende is lifted by a superb recorded sound where Tomasoni’s richly projected overtones find a worthy foil in Jeroen Bal’s elegant and alert accompaniments. If Françaix’s Sonatine is the Poulenc sonata Poulenc never wrote (without the poetic craft), all roads lead to Timofei Dokschitzer’s superb transcription of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Here lies the heart of Tomasoni’s world: ease and perfection in all registers, and yet this is an aesthetic of such refinement and controlled expression that one yearns at times for more viscera, the spit and sawdust of spontaneity – or at least an impression of letting go a bit. The Gershwin is just too manicured. The Brandt Concertpieces find greater liberation of line and dramatic shape in Jeroen Berwaerts’s brilliant album of ‘Romantic’ works from last year (‘In the Limelight’). We are in a golden era of outstanding players and Tomasoni’s new recital is truly exceptional – with this single caveat.