Hot on the heels of Timothy Ridout’s absorbing Harmonia Mundi tribute to Lionel Tertis (HMM90537677), here comes Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak on Delphian with an eclectic program that by happy chance includes the 20th-century masterpiece missing from his British counterpart’s distinguished disc.

Born in New York, Bak made his Wigmore Hall debut two years ago with an original program that included the magisterial sonata by Arnold Bax. A rising star on both sides of the Atlantic, he won third prize in the 2020 Sphinx Competition, was a Grand Prize winner at the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Competition and was awarded the 2019 John White Special Prize from the Tertis International Viola Competition. He’s currently supported by the UK’s Young Classical Artists Trust.

The promise of his 2022 recording debut on Bright Shiny Things (BSTD0162) is fully realised on this new release, which opens with a work for solo viola: Chant by the late British composer Jonathan Harvey. It’s an evocative piece with demanding double-stopping and a persistent drone effect offset by some tricky upper passage work. Bak offers...