There’s a certain reverence for a bygone era about Iberia, the latest album from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan. All six works here are familiar fare, the common thread being the late-19th and early 20th-century French enthusiasm for all things Spanish. It’s the kind of programme the record industry thrived on in the 1960s and 70s. There’s nothing dusty about the playing, however, nor the state-of-the-art recording, which possesses sonic depth while leaving plenty of space for the music’s delicate perfumes to waft to the surface.

For all his reserves of Venezuelan fire, Hindoyan takes a measured approach, resisting the temptation to grandstand. The results are frequently revelatory, with much that strikes the ear anew: diaphanous textures, addictive Latin rhythms and perfectly judged releases of musical adrenaline. Listen, for example, to the colours he brings out in Chabrier’s España, the RLPO firing on all cylinders with opulent tone and distinguished solos.

Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso, every detail immaculately crafted, explodes with energy, wriggling its hips while cocking an irreverent snook. Ibéria, the central panel of Debussy’s three orchestral Images, comes up fresh as a daisy, swinging, sultry and celebratory in turn. In short, an hour and a quarter of musical sunshine.