Vocal – particularly choral – music has been a strong and persistent thread through Judith Weir’s output from the start and this collection brings together works from a 25-year period. The earliest is perhaps the best known, Missa del Cid (1988), a 20-minute mini-oratorio for narrator and unaccompanied chorus, here receiving its second recording. David Fanning had reservations about the presentation of the first, by Combattimento with Nick Herrett as the Evangelist (3/90 – nla), but the BBC Singers’s newcomer is much more successful, the harmonies clear, certainly anything but ‘tiring on the ear’, and Charles Gibbs’s narration perfectly timed.

Clarity of thought and texture is apparent in the concise setting of the unaccompanied Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (2011), a conventional form as ever approached by Weir with a keen ear uncluttered by tradition constraints. The Song Sung True (2013) is the most recent item, four pithy songs composed for the London Lawyers’ Chorus, setting Spence, Shakespeare, Fletcher and Edward Lear in a thoroughly uncontroversial but very entertaining manner. Two accompanied works from the 1990s top and tail the programme, the titular work here – Storm (1997), a vividly atmospheric five-movement suite for female voices setting fragments from The Tempest – andAll the Ends of the Earth (1999), a superb and subtle reimagining of Perotin, which has been recorded before in a mixed-composer collection for the same label.

These works were recorded last year before Weir took up her role as Associate Composer for the BBC Singers; the high quality of their interpretations of these five works bode well for their working relationship and promises much for the new works to come between now and the end of 2017.