Mark Bebbington continues to consolidate his position as an exemplary interpreter of 20th-century British piano music with this intimate pairing of Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen, Bax’s longstanding mistress and the dedicatee of most of his keyboard music. I knew Cohen as a forward-thinking interpreter of Bach, but she also championed fellow British composers and the likes of Sibelius, Bartók and Shostakovich.

The odd Bach transcription aside, here is a rare example of a short series of picture postcard sketches of Russia – Russian Impressions (c.1913). Although Cohen’s music is attractively presented within a ‘Debussy meets Delius’ soundworld, the praise for this collection lies more with Bax’s work – particularly this performance of his muscular 1921...