In 2016 Melbourne’s Tinalley Quartet – Adam Chalabi and Lerida Delbridge on violins, Justin Williams on viola, and then cellist Michelle Wood – played Ravel’s quartet in the first half of a typically adventurous concert with rock singer Lior in the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room. In my review I said Tinalley played with passion and commitment, adding: “It was a bit of a bumpy ride, but this was a colourful and full-throated reading.” The colour, passion and earthy quality are still there in their debut album with Decca, released in March this year, but there is plenty of French polish as well. There is also a change of personnel with Patrick Murphy – formerly of the Tankstream Quartet and later the Grainger String Quartet – joining Tinalley on cello at the end of last year.