Who better to open an album dedicated to Australian music than Percy Grainger? The legendary composer’s Colonial Song is first up for Amir Farid (piano), and Bramble brothers Lachlan (violin) and Ewen (cello). With an unmistakable folk-like sentiment, the Benaud Trio sets the tone for the album’s spirit of national pride.

We’re soon struck by Paul Stanhope’s Three Lorca Songs, in which soprano Greta Bradman takes to the fore. She sings a sobering vision of Australia – moody, dissonant, and ethereal. It’s a work the trio commissioned for Bradman herself, set to poems from the Spanish composer of its namesake: Federico García Lorca. (Of course, the Aussie cricket follower might recognise an additional cultural connection here; she...