Duo Histoire has released a warming collection of saxophonist Nick Russoniello and guitarist Murilo Tanouye’s most treasurable performance works. After a vigorous introduction, we ease into the sleazy Autumn from Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. It’s a piece I last heard at TSO’s Live Sessions [Limelight, August 2017] and though here reduced in instrumentation, this is at no sacrifice to spirit or presence.

Piazzolla bookends two other works. In Cloud 8 by Stuart Greenbaum, Russoniello’s singing melodies receive thoughtful responses from Tanouye – it’s a work to internalise; to sink into. Russoniello then showcases extended techniques in Phillip Houghton’s Cave Painting from The Dreaming. The composer, who passed away earlier this year, stated the work...