Vasks’s approachable, urgently communicative concerto for violin and strings Distant Light (1996-97) has already enjoyed notable advocacy on disc from Gidon Kremer (who gave the August 1997 Salzburg Festival world première) and John Storgårds. Now comes another outstanding version: Swedish CO leader Katarina Andreasson plays with exquisite refinement and encourages some scrupulously dedicated playing from her colleagues. This BIS newcomer clocks in at just under 31 minutes (Kremer takes 29'08" as opposed to Storgårds’s 33'43") and its taut concentration is a boon in a work which can easily sound piecemeal.

I still find Kremer’s the most magnetically ‘complete’ realisation, but no Vasks fan should miss hearing Andreasson, particularly when her disc also includes passionate and responsive accounts of the intense Musica dolorosa from 1983 and Viatore (2001), another powerful single-movement essay for string orchestra which nods towards Giya Kancheli and Arvo Pärt (and which here receives its first recording). Production-values leave nothing to be desired, and this is indeed a very fine release.