Marking 30 years since his professional debut, Philippe Quint’s Milestones collates three substantial pieces written for him that were also significant for their composers. Two concertos making their first appearance on disc commandingly taking the lion’s share. That all the composers here are women makes its own statement.

Although commissioned before the 9/11 atrocities and not premiered until 2003, Lera Auerbach’s First Violin Concerto, Heart of the Violin, feels emotionally informed by that traumatic event. Certainly, the apocalyptic orchestral tutti with which it opens speaks of something terrible and transformative.

In the maelstrom’s midst, the violin is cast as a befuddled onlooker beset with nostalgia for what was. What results is a compelling, through-the-looking-glass threnody laced with primal fears, menace and threat in which nothing is what it seems. Things take a decidedly curious turn in the shape-shifting scherzo haunted and haloed by an unsettling theremin. The third movement is a passacaglia cast as a fevered prayer, the rondo finale a fiery dance of death between Eros...