The 150th anniversary of the birth of Manuel de Falla has seen a plethora of recordings, albeit mostly of the same handful of works. And therein lies the problem. Apart from Love the Magician (El Amor Brujo), The Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero de Tres Picos) and Nights in the Gardens of Spain, there’s little of his music in the repertoire, with the Harpsichord Concerto, the fine one-act opera La Vida Breve and Master Peter’s Puppet Show lurking on the fringes. Nevertheless, what remains is first-rate music and here Domingo Hindoyan has distilled Falla’s modest output into 80 minutes of undiluted pleasure.

As they proved on Iberia, their recent album of Spanish-inspired French music (ONYX ONYX4252), Hindoyan and his Liverpool forces have a knack for colour, balance and pace that makes this kind of music dance along (particularly appropriate for Falla’s two ballet scores). There’s an element of swings and roundabouts here. The Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat is a fine...