'Wielding a darkly sonorous 10-course Renaissance lute made in 2023 by Jiří Čepelák, Carr especially seizes upon the novelty and nostalgia inherent in Poulenc’s Sarabande or Satie’s Gnossiennes to echo the melancholy and wistfulness of Dowland’s Tarleton’s Resurrection or Johnson’s Pavan – an effect enhanced by Snowden’s lyrical, direct Blue coming between the latter two pieces.

Other juxtapositions are equally striking. By following Ballard’s mini-suite of short dances with Satie’s Gnossienne No 1 or the same composer’s Gymnopédie No 1 with Ennemond Gaultier’s Courante Son Adieu, the effect of defamiliarisation is intensified. Following Satie by Purcell and Eccles by Johnson – who ends the recital – is perhaps more subtle but equally effective.

Throughout, Carr adopts a beautifully flexible approach to interpretation while maintaining a sure sense of period style. Indeed, his artfully rendered lines, textures and timbres ensure a universalising ‘softest thunder’ rumbles beneath every work in this intelligently conceived and compellingly realised recital.'