As album titles go, Reflection is pretty bland. But there is nothing timid about the playing of that feisty violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and her excellent piano partner Huw Watkins. The music isn’t insipid either, particularly the title track: the first recording of the much-missed Oliver Knussen’s last completed work, an eight-minute jewel that happily marries superb craftsmanship with the spontaneous display of emotion. It’s a wonderful piece. So, in a different way, is Watkins’s sturdy Violin Sonata, which respects and revivifies traditional ideas of tonality and musical form, and was directly written for Waley-Cohen’s volatile gifts.

The album’s two other items take us back into the 20th century. Even with splendid playing, Stravinsky’s neo-classical Duo Concertant remains rather cool and calculating, a triumph of neat embroidery. But the temperature definitely rises with the longest item, Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No 1, completed in 1946. Waley-Cohen and Watkins leap around from movement to movement, pushed to extremes, alternately screeching, whispering and bustling through a somewhat inscrutable narrative that is a reflection of—what? Stalin and the wartime experience? Prokofiev’s musical volatility? Meaty listening, anyway.