Conductor Paavo Järvi has a wide repertoire. In 1997, he conducted a disc of music from his native Estonia called Searching for Roots, which featured music by the three best known Estonian composers: Eduard Tubin, Erkki-Sven Tüür, and Arvo Pärt. Now he returns to that part of the world to showcase (mostly) younger composers who have written works for the Parnü music festival, which Järvi set up in 2011 to showcase new compositions and the best orchestral musicians of Estonia. (Their earlier Alpha disc, of Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, proclaimed this orchestra to be an exciting discovery.)

The opening work is To the Moonlight by Tõnu Kõrvits (b.1969), a beguiling piece of post-impressionism full of Sibelian woodwind-dominated colours. Two works by Ülo Krigul (b. 1975), Chordae and The Bow, bring a more powerful voice to bear. Chordae is monumental and dramatic, while bells and brass usher in The Bow – another short but strident tone poem. With Helena Tulve (b. 1972)...