All the pieces are premieres on disc – and they are discoveries you’ll want to hear many times again.

Martin Jones, who is in the process of recording Lutyens’s complete piano music, has the measure of her scores—and of Maconchy’s as well. His tightly argued, rhythmically alert, and textually clean playing is matched by the orchestra.

Wallen is an accomplished pianist in her own right, so her writing is beautifully laid out for the instrument. Omordia has its measure, as well as Wallen’s coruscating expressiveness.

There's a wonderful economy of expression to Elizabeth Maconchy's Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra from 1941 (which like the rest of the programme receives its world premiere recording here...Performed with huge panache by its dedicatee Rebeca Omordia, Errollyn Wallen’s 2022 Piano Concerto makes for a lively finish, paying homage to Ravel in the opening movement and incorporating elements of blues and Eastern European folk-dance later on.

It’s the Maconchy – essentially a concerto in four movements, each less than five minutes long – that makes the strongest immediate impression…It packs a punch, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by John Andrews, bouncing off the coiled spring of Martin Jones’s piano playing.