A half-dozen works for choir, a cappella and variously accompanied by electronics and acoustic instruments – four of them first recordings – serves as a glowing posthumous farewell to Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho who died, aged 70, in June.

Recorded as recently as August and October, 2022, there is obvious poignancy in the booklet listing of Saariaho’s birth in 1952 and its innocence in not knowing that this would prove to be a valedictory offering. Equally so that this programme was first performed by Nils Schweckendiek’s Helsinki Chamber Choir to mark the composer reach the end of her seventh decade.

Peculiarities of fate aside, what we have is further testimony of Saariaho’s standing as one of the most innovative, intriguing and involving composers of her age. That it adds a revealing aside to her desolate operas and Byzantine orchestral language is welcome.

Bookending the disc, one work is repeated, the eight-part Nuits, adieux, in its 1991 iteration for four singers and electronics, and in its a cappella version from five years later. It...