The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet beyond the fireworks there’s real musicality: Kobekina is thoroughly conversant with Baroque style and she draws a mellifluous, multi-hued sound, never over-egging it with too much vibrato.

the single impression all this leaves is hard to articulate, its essence is so ephemeral you will feel it every second of this album. And that, folks, is true art.

The inclusion of Gabriel Fauré, Nino Rota, György Kurtág and Brian Eno challenges any narrow baroque assumptions we may have about music of that city, while also – obligingly – fulfilling our expectations...The programme is singular and intimate, less about virtuosic solo cello than ensemble musicianship, and all the better for it.