Violinists have been well served by Rautavaara. As well as a full-scale violin concerto, written in the 1960s, the Finnish composer wrote several wonderful pieces for the instrument in the last decade of his life. It’s these later works that appear on this superbly recorded disc from Ondine, which includes two world premieres.

The major one of these is Lost Landscapes, originally written as a violin and piano duo for Midori in 2005. It’s heard here in its orchestrated version of 2015, with Simone Lamsma as the soloist. Her playing is piercingly beautiful and emotionally acute, tapping into the seam of nostalgia that underpins the concerto’s four movements. Each was inspired by a different place from Rautavaara’s studies abroad: Tanglewood, USA; Ascona, Italy; Vienna, Austria; New York, USA. And with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and conductor Robert Trevino matching Lamsma’s every colour shift and tonal nuance, it’s hard to imagine the piece in any other guise.

If there’s an astringent edge to some of the writing in Lost Landscapes, the album’s opener finds Rautavaara in full-blown neo-Romantic flow....