Cocteau Trilogy is a thrillingly played collation of arrangements for two pianos drawn from Francophile Philip Glass’s operatic homages to the French polymath and film director Jean Cocteau by Katia and Marielle Labèque.

The siblings approach arranger Michael Riesman’s kaleidoscopic treatment of Glass’s crystalline tributes with an obvious respect for detail. And, more persuasively, a palpable and becoming relish, carefully turning each phrase and movement with a telling fascination for the glinting, ever-changing shapes and patterns that result.

Dedicatees of his Double Piano Concerto in 2015, the pair have long been articulate advocates of Glass’s music. Here, they mesh together with all the poetic intricacy and reciprocal intimacy that has become their signature, both intently listening and responding to the other.

Such propinquity pays especially notable dividends in the hypnotic chiaroscuro contrasts of Orphée, Cocteau’s updating of the oft-told fable of Apollo’s son attempting to rescue his beloved Eurydice from death with his sirenic music. Laced by

Glass with a diamanté-encrusted Joplin-like vivacity, the Labèques take to it with...