Enescu’s Légende gives its title to this album, and it sets the mood. It’s too serious to count as a lollipop but it’s not exactly as weighty as the one really substantial piece here: Hindemith’s powerful Sonata of 1939. The Hindemith, plus sonatinas by Françaix (typically concise) and Martinů anchor the programme. Around them are miniatures ranging from Kern and Gershwin transcriptions to that unlikely ‘smooth classic’, Maxwell Davies’s Farewell to Stromness. There’s even The Thoughts of Dr May, an enjoyably lush six-minute duo apparently written collaboratively by Balsom and Poster as a tribute to Queen guitarist Brian May.

In short, it seems to be a selection from Balsom and Poster’s recital repertoire, and it’s an attractive – if eclectic – one. You can tell these players enjoy each other’s company, and that pays dividends in the more heavyweight numbers: listen to the purpose with which they drive the first movement of the Hindemith forwards. But they make a lovely sound together too. I enjoyed the sweetness of Balsom’s muted tone in the central Sarabande of the Françaix and the way that even while articulating brilliantly through Goedicke’s Concert-étude, she can make her lines sing.

The Minuet from Ravel’s Sonatine (the only solo piano item, presumably included as a nod to the pair’s recital programmes) is gracefully done – and Poster conjures up a wonderfully smoky haze at the opening of his own transcription of ‘The way you look tonight’. It’s a relaxed end to the disc, and the burst of applause at the close comes as a surprise. Nothing about the sound quality, or the unforced naturalness of the pair’s joint musicality, gives you any cause to realise that it was mainly recorded live.