The recording, like the 30-year-old American cellist, is supercharged with virtues that speak to the better part of human nature. Weilerstein’s take on two concertos – one a warhorse, the other little known outside the walls of the modernist music ghetto – found instant five-star favour with reviewers. Her reading of Elgar’s Cello Concerto has already been ranked alongside Jacqueline du Pré’s legendary recording of the work almost half a century ago, the benchmark by which all others have been measured, and usually found wanting. Weilerstein also set down a strong marker for new music’s cause by pairing Elgar with Elliot Carter’s Cello Concerto, completed just before his 92nd birthday in 2000.