Coupling Dvorak's best-known symphony, "From the New World", with Martinu's rarely played Second seems an odd idea until you realise the two works represent their composers' responses to exile in the US, and comparably explore the conflict between nostalgia for their Czech homeland and an ambivalent sense of wonder at being in a new world at once inspiring and alien.

The sleeve notes try to argue that Martinu was "the more original" composer, which is rubbish, though his symphony gets the better performance from Paavo Jarvi and his Cincinnati orchestra, with the sense of urban danger thrillingly captured. Jarvi's New World Symphony, a rather solemn affair, is less successful. The great Largo, taken slower than usual, is harrowingly beautiful, but the rest of it seems mannered by comparison.