Through a diversity of genres – aria, concerto, fugue, overture and trio sonata – Bach’s music is imbued with timbral and textural elegance and profundity. Kelly ’s varied instrumental juxtapositions and their resultant sonorities, together with Brecon Baroque’s usual stylish and impeccable playing , make one reluctant to identify highlights.

if you’re after finesse-filled joy and humanity coupled with whopping colouristic variety and cumulative power, Kelly’s is a new go-to.

Kelly’s arrangements of the Goldbergs are so idiomatic that one could easily believe that they sprang from the pen of the composer himself (a keen upcycler of his own music): the choice of instrumental forces for each variation feels exactly right...Podger herself is peerless, both in her beautifully-phrased opening Aria and in the dizzying toccatas - particularly Variation 20, where sparks really fly between her and cellist Alexander Rolton.

Heard “blind”, you might mistake it for an extra Brandenburg concerto – no bad thing. Podger is a supreme baroque player, and this is a bold and different way to think about Bach’s unfathomable genius.

The results are beguiling and hugely entertaining, this Bach outward-looking and approachable. It’s difficult not to grin when you hear the winds chuntering away in Variation 2, bassoonist Inga Klaucke’s bass lines tossed off with insouciant ease. Podger instinctively knows when to step back and let the other voices speak…A fabulous disc, beautifully recorded.