Various orchestras, EMI Classics 457 8132 ****

Thomas Adès’s Tevot is a fascinating 22-minute piece written for the Berlin Philharmonic in 2007. With Simon Rattle conducting, it’s at once giddy and solid, floating and earthy, with a momentum that can feel glacial even in the face of hyper-activity.

Tevot is coupled with the oddly unanchored Violin Concerto, played by its dedicatee, Anthony Marwood; three

Couperin Studies

, which are not so much orchestrated by Adès as presented in strangely loose-fitting orchestral wrapping by him (both with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the composer); and an intentionally sleazy suite from his first opera,

Powder Her Face

(with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under Paul Daniel). See url.ie/57cs