Celebrating Birmingham’s newly refurbished Town Hall and organ, this programme is the kind that a century ago would have had audiences queuing round the block, a time when Mr Trotter and his ilk were accorded the same kind of reverence reserved today for the Kissins and Argerichs of this world.

Trotter, who next year will mark 25 years as Birmingham City Organist, satisfyingly employs the vast resources of the William Hill instrument to its full speaker-rattling capacity (though not, alas, its new set of bells, a lost feature of the original organ, installed only after this recording was made). Sir Malcolm Sargent once described Edwin Lemare, five of whose pieces appear here, as “the man who made the organ dance�. After some deliciously un‑PC Handel, Trotter displays the kind of footwork that would have made Fred Astaire envious in Thalben-Ball’s virtuoso Paganini Variations for pedals alone. With its three- and four-part chords, glissandi and rapid semiquaver passagework, it sounds a physically improbable and aurally impossible feat (the pun is intended).

But then in GT-B’s Elegy, Trotter reminds us what a meticulous, imaginative colourist he is. In Best’s Fantasia on Men of Harlech and Lemare’s Carmen Suite, his rhythmic panache and incisive attack send a shiver down the spine. I could have done without Lemare’s sickly Andantino (aka “Moonlight and Roses�) but others I am sure will welcome its inclusion on this masterfully played and superbly recorded disc with excellent booklet-note by David Gammie.