The small Boston-based orchestra, A Far Cry, has scored top points for this self-funded recital which is made up of two sets of variations – Ethan Wood’s updating of Mozart’s familiar piano variations on Ah! Vous dirais-je, Maman (better known to English audiences as the nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) and Benjamin Britten’s early masterpiece Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge – written for string orchestra. The ‘Visions’ of the disc’s title take their name from Prokofiev’s wonderful set of piano miniatures, Visions Fugitives, Op. 22.

All three works are delivered in impeccably taut and athletic performances which amaze with their clarity and variety of tonal colour – especially given that A Far Cry is a conductor-less orchestra wherein the leader rotates. Similarly, while Prokofiev’s short pieces are in the main transcribed by Rudolf Barshai, five of them are adapted by various members...