Taken from a concert at last year's City of London festival, this disc interweaves Bach's D minor solo violin Partita with a selection of funereal chorales, followed by a performance – after a speedy segue into the opening organ chord – of Faure's Requiem. The Bach pairing is inspired by a current scholarly theory that this partita was a hidden memorial to his late wife. Choir and soloist, LSO Leader Gordan Nikolitch, come together in the great Chaconne, to wrenching and compelling effect. It doesn't quite work, and the sound is uneven, but the experiment is fascinating. Faure's Requiem, sensitively accompanied by the LSO Chamber Ensemble, is warmly performed, at once urgent and serene.