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 draws on textures of the Australian...