All the main suspects are here: Bach, Franck, Vierne, Messiaen. Sometimes they pair up – the disc opens with Marcel Dupré’s grandiose reworking of a Bach Sinfonia; the French outnumber the Germans by six to two; there is just one Briton; and the vast bulk of the music dates from the late 19th/early 20th centuries. This is not a disc to seek out on repertory alone. If you like organ music, you will already have versions of just about everything here. Neither is it a disc which offers anything notable in the way of interpretative insight, the two Bach transcriptions, along with the Pièce héroïque, possessing a somewhat pedestrian quality as they revisit their very familiar pathways. Benjamin Nicholas is a highly competent player and one as prepared as anyone to display virtuosity.

But this disc does have its USP. This full-bodied recording captures an instrument of real musical worth which, bucking the trend of looking to continental Europe, is unequivocally English. Completed this year, the organ of Merton College, Oxford, looks and sounds gloriously familiar to all of us brought up in the English tradition. The organ was, however, built by an American company – the Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Iowa – and, as one of its vice presidents writes in the booklet, ‘The opportunity to design and construct an organ for a building so steeped in history almost never comes to an American company’. It’s a wonderful instrument, happily meeting the demands of any repertory, and it is this which is the undoubted star of this lovely new recording.