The recording of Dobrinka Tabakova’s Concerto for Cello and Strings on String Paths, her debut album for ECM New Series, brought international acclaim to the Bulgarian British composer. Her follow-up ECM album brings back some of the String Paths ensemble, including violist Maxim Rysanov, violinist Roman Mints, and cellist Kristine Blaumane. Friends and colleagues since conservatory days at the Guildhall School, all now leading soloists, they have grown up with the expressive language and colors of Tabakova’s music and are among its ideal interpreters. Sun Triptych features two works for viola and piano: Whispered Lullaby, a yearning song, and Suite in Jazz Style, an imaginative chamber meditation on jazz gestures, atmospheres, and textures. Spinning a Yarn, for violin and hurdy-gurdy, has a touching, archaic folk-like quality. A Fantasy Homage to Schubert, with Tabakova conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra, transfigures Schubertian melody and directs it heavenward, conjuring images of slowly turning planets. Organum Light, also for strings, draws inspiration from Gibbons and Purcell. The concluding, radiant Sun Triptych evokes the play of light on the natural world over the course of the day.