If music is, indeed, ‘the food of love’, then Huw Watkins’s Flute Concerto (2013) does have ‘excess of it’! I recall its broadcast on Radio 3 (via the iPlayer) a year or so ago and was enchanted; renewing my acquaintance has been an unalloyed joy. Cast in the conventional three movements, the music dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by Adam Walker – who premiered it in 2014 – beautifully accompanied by the Hallé Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth. This is the finest British flute concerto since Robert Simpson’s and John McCabe’s (both from 1989 90).

Designed, according to Steph Power’s informative booklet note, ‘to reflect Ibragimova’s dynamic and intense, fiercely intelligent playing’, the Violin Concerto (2010) has the same Allegro molto-Andante-Allegro molto format as the Flute Concerto but its emotional landscape is very different – more seriously dramatic – yet the lyricism is, if anything, even more acute. This recording is of the work’s blistering Proms premiere in August 2010, superbly engineered to be of a piece with the companion works.

The Violin Concerto also exhibits a trait that is something of a favourite of the composer’s, a way of sidestepping traditional movement endings, as if pulling the rug from under your feet. That is even more apparent in the most recent work here, the coruscating Symphony composed in 2016 17. A diptych in structure, it also ends with a sidestep, here the focal point of this exciting symphony’s structure. It is a work one has to go back to straight away and Mark Wigglesworth’s account, with the Hallé on sublime form, is superb. Another great British symphony, strongly recommended.